The Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act, introduced by Reps. Don Beyer, D-Va., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., would grant federal employees up to 12 weeks of paid family leave each year to attend to a serious health condition or to care for a spouse, child or parent.  ...

Republican appropriators in the House last week thwarted efforts by their Democratic colleagues to override President Trump’s apparent plan to freeze civilian federal employees’ pay next year and restore civil service and workplace protections currently on the chopping block.  Read the full article here ...

In Executive Order 14251, the President exercised authority under 5 U.S.C. § 7103(b)(1) to determine that, with limited exceptions, the DoD has a primary function involving intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work and the labor statute cannot be applied due to national security requirements.  On April 9, 2026, Secretary ...

Though the forced distribution of performance ratings is “categorically prohibited” under current rules, federal agencies already appear to be adopting the system, before the proposal has even been announced.  GovExec ...

The Office of Personnel Management is set to propose new regulations in the coming weeks seeking to significantly quicken the pace of agency reductions in force. The plan creates a new formula for determining which employees within a RIF are retained, based on the weighted sum of their three most ...