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The Senate parliamentarian has ruled that most proposals aiming to cut federal employees’ retirement benefits and civil ...
The changes come after the Senate parliamentarian said several proposals from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee violated the Byrd Rule.
With OPM’s final rule, agencies can decide fire feds in their probationary period based broadly on agency needs, interests and “organizational goals.” ...
The Trump administration's plans to convert some 50,000 civil servants into at-will employees has some worried that essential ...
Reuters FILE PHOTO: A view shows the logo of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), after probationary staff at the OPM were fired in a conference call and given less than an hour to leave the ...
FERS is a defined-benefit plan that replaced the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). Employees are automatically enrolled in the program and receive retirement benefits from three different ...
OPM’s filing discusses the history of civil service protections within the federal government, describing the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act as an effort to clean up a patchwork of executive ...
Trump says workers who don't reply to OPM email will eventually lose jobs The Trump administration is moving forward with a new rule to classify some career civil servants as "at-will" federal ...
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) is now granting up to 10 bonus points on the Civil Service Exam (CSE) to qualified military and uniformed personnel (MUP). Starting 10 August 2025, if you take the ...
But her administration is navigating what the mayor calls “byzantine” civil service rules while facing a new legal challenge that has stymied her ability to appoint an interim personnel director.
Legal OPM illegally ordered agencies to fire ‘probationary’ federal employees, judge rules But the judge did not order the reinstatement of any fired workers, saying he was powerless to do so.
The federal Office of Personnel Management on Monday undercut a threat by Elon Musk that government workers who fail to submit a list of their recent accomplishments will face a forced ...