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- Unions: OPM’s suitability and performance management overhauls assert ‘plenary’ authority over federal firing
- Unions accuse mediation agency of ‘doublespeak’ in updated lawsuit
- Federal job listings provide clues for next set of Schedule P/C conversions
- Life happened. Now what about your retirement benefits?
- Plans to move FBI headquarters to Reagan Building blocked by federal judge
- Bill expanding paid leave for feds is pared back in Senate
- Key oversight and federal workforce nominees confirmed by Senate
- CDC gets a new chief as agency faces questions over its direction
- LGBTQ+ feds sue to restore FEHB coverage of gender affirming care
- Council News Today — July 31, 2026
- Why time, not timing, is the biggest retirement advantage for federal employees
- Staffing cuts are leaving federal statistical agencies stretched thin
- Council News Today — July 29, 2026
- New documentary recounts ‘free-for-all attitude of cruelty’ toward axed federal employees
- AFGE sues over EEOC’s apparent shutdown of class action cases against agencies
- Why your retirement experience may depend more on the agency than the benefit
- Energy Department removes more than 1,600 webpages from public website
- Council News Today — July 17, 2026
- Why Social Security's uncertainty is becoming a federal workforce issue
- Arbitrator restores telework and remote work at the Forest Service
- Council News Today — July 14, 2026
- What federal officials still haven't explained about the Houston ICE shooting
- Trump empties out election commission leadership just months before midterms
- Trump empties out election commission leadership just months before midterms
- 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