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- Want to retire at the end of 2026? Start planning now
- States, feds scramble to prevent more water cyberattacks
- Pushed out by the Trump administration, these ex-feds want to make agency firings simpler and fairer
- State Department board’s ability to challenge firings undercut by DOJ
- OPM finalizes expanded hazard pay for federal firefighters
- Federal agencies are looking beyond the usual sources for new ideas
- Mediation agency changes how labor disputes move forward
- Chinese telecom firms kept footholds in US networks despite federal crackdowns, House probe finds
- Feds quietly moved a Medicaid technology project to a central data hub as new eligibility requirements approach
- IRS and Social Security bar employees from taking advanced leave
- Federal employees say they’ll quit if they have to move to New Jersey
- As FEMA's future hangs in the balance, Senate advances nominee to lead the agency
- OPM moves to implement long-awaited retirement fix for federal first responders
- Texas secretary of state raised concerns about the federal tool used to flag potential noncitizen voters
- Feds launch groundbreaking electric plane pilot program in Virginia
- EEOC votes to propose new rule stripping feds of hearing rights, class action complaints
- Want to retire at the end of 2026? Start planning now
- States, feds scramble to prevent more water cyberattacks
- Pushed out by the Trump administration, these ex-feds want to make agency firings simpler and fairer
- Politicizing government investments hurts all of us
- Unions: OPM’s suitability and performance management overhauls assert ‘plenary’ authority over federal firing
- GSA says it’s uncovered ‘record-setting’ $13B in suspected procurement fraud
- State Department board’s ability to challenge firings undercut by DOJ
- Unions accuse mediation agency of ‘doublespeak’ in updated lawsuit
- ‘Glaring violations’ of the Hatch Act by senior Trump officials have gone unpunished for months, good government group alleges
- Federal job listings provide clues for next set of Schedule P/C conversions