On July 28, 2025, the United States Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) issued a memorandum endorsing federal employees expressing their religious beliefs in the workplace. Specifically, OPM Director Scott Kupor instructed...more
Establishes Schedule G within the excepted service to cover noncareer, policymaking or policy-advocating positions that are normally subject to change with a presidential transition. The Director of the Office of Personnel...more
Through October 15, 2025, all executive departments and agencies are prohibited from filling vacant federal civilian positions or creating new ones unless exempted by law or approved under a limited review process...more
On March 24, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California entered an order addressing subject matter jurisdiction in a case involving unions and federal employee terminations following President Trump’s...more
Orders the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to be delegated the authority to make final suitability determinations and take suitability actions regarding employees in the executive branch based on...more
On February 27, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) reportedly ordered the CFPB to reinstate employees who are veterans, disabled veterans, and military spouses who were previously terminated. The CFPB reinstated these...more
On February 27, the FDIC reportedly ordered all employees to return to the office by the end of March, with few exceptions, as part of a workforce reduction plan. According to an all-staff email from Daniel H. Bendler, the...more
On February 26, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued guidance to federal agencies on implementing President Trump’s Executive Order 14210 from February 11 requiring...more
It was reported this weekend that all federal employees received an e-mail from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) telling employees to report “five bullets about what you did last week.” The e-mail also states that...more
Following his January 20th inauguration, President Donald Trump has made a concerted effort to downsize the executive branch of the federal government. Today, in a move that many have anticipated for weeks, President Trump’s...more
Within 30 days, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget is directed to issue Career Senior Executive Service (SES) Performance Plans that agencies must...more
Among the myriad executive orders issued by President Trump in the hours after his inauguration, two focus on the number and location of federal employees. The first is a return-to-work order, requiring all employees of...more
On December 15, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published in the Federal Register a notice listing its priorities. Under “Suitability” on page 77883 of the Federal Register, OPM states that they will be “proposing...more
On August 14, 2015, a class action was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of about 21.5 million federal employees, contractors, and job applicants whose personal information was...more
The announcement on June 4th of a massive cybersecurity attack that compromised data stored on Office of Personnel Management (OPM) systems for 4.2 million current and former federal employees is the most recent head-smacking...more
Employees are reasonable in assuming that their employer is protecting their personal information from compromise. The obvious way to do that is to maintain appropriate encryption technology. Simply put: encryption,...more