Merit Hiring Plan: Spoils Era Return?
New merit hiring plan raises concerns about legal imperfections and a return to the spoils era. The plan may cripple workforce planning and invite political influence in hiring.
Federal Workers’ Rights: Unions Fight Schedule F Revival
Unions oppose Trump's Schedule F revival, claiming it threatens civil service protections, enables political retaliation, and undermines objective policy-making. Plan impacts 50,000+ federal workers.
OPM Revives Schedule F: Federal Job Security at Risk
OPM proposes reviving Schedule F, potentially stripping civil service protections from thousands of federal workers in policy-related roles. Critics cite concerns about political influence and job security.
OPM fires its own probationary period staff
OPM has been recently embroiled in at least a dozen lawsuits raised by people concerned about alleged privacy violations brought by the agency and staffers working in it under Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
OPM skirted agency norms in assessing the privacy of its new email system
The PIA released last week is signed by OPM’s new chief information officer, Greg Hogan, who was quickly installed after the new Trump administration pushed Melvin Brown II, a career federal employee, out of the personnel agency’s CIO role.
OPM asks to dismiss email server lawsuit, citing misinterpretation of law
The initial suit, filed in the Washington, D.C. District Court by two anonymous federal employees, claims OPM — working with Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency — violated the 2002 E-Government Act by bypassing a required privacy impact assessment, or PIA, before standing up the email platform.