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DOGE reorganization of nuclear regulator prompts concerns about the agency’s continued focus on safety

President Donald Trump wants the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to lay off workers, while the agency has fallen short of its recruitment goals in recent years and struggled to replenish its aging workforce.

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OPM ‘merit’ hiring plan includes bipartisan reforms, politicized new test

The federal government’s HR agency on Thursday instructed agencies to cease collecting data on the demographic makeup of their workforces.

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Fired GSA 18F employees appeal to have jobs reinstated

The Trump administration has endeavored to streamline the agency’s contracting and procurement processes while putting in mechanisms to shed its workforce.

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Democratic bills would rehire axed National Parks and Forest Service employees

Both agencies have already undergone workforce reductions with more layoffs still planned.

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TSA union urges judge to block ‘retaliatory’ order outlawing bargaining at agency

An attorney representing the Trump administration argued that U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman did not have jurisdiction to hear the case and described the administration’s approach to labor groups as “a different management style.”

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Appeals board creates new path to renew reversals of probationary firings

At least some fired feds can pursue their case through a class action, administrative judge says.

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DHS says it won’t eliminate oversight offices but is still pursuing layoffs

Progressive legal organizations are suing to stop the Trump administration from winding down the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties as well as two ombudsmen focused on immigration.

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Most major agencies are now indefinitely barred from issuing mass layoffs

The Trump administration's plans to reorganize agencies are "likely unconstitutional," judge says.

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More than 2,100 GSA employees have accepted deferred resignations

Combined with those employees that have been impacted by reductions in force, the losses amount to nearly a quarter of what the agency’s workforce totals were last fall.

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Agencies are violating the law on administrative leave, and taxpayers are paying the price

COMMENTARY | Administrative leave must be brief and directed toward furthering, not frustrating, agency operations.

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Judge bars Education Department from carrying out mass layoffs

Education is unable to carry out its statutory responsibilities and the Trump administration must receive congressional approval before dismantling the department, judge rules.

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Judges issue promising rulings for groups fighting Trump’s anti-union order

A federal judge in Kentucky tossed the Trump administration’s bid to secure a court victory prior to formally rescinding union contracts under the guise of national security, while another jurist sought new avenues to potentially block the March executive order’s implementation.

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Agencies’ effort to unwind project labor agreement requirements ‘flatly contradict’ order establishing them, judge says

The Trump administration had sought to neutralize a Biden-era executive order requiring contractors to negotiate with unions ahead of major construction projects with broad exceptions, something specifically barred by the underlying order.

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Neglect the IC’s human capital at our peril

COMMENTARY | Taking a blunt approach to the Intelligence Community's workforce management strategy can produce dire repercussions, as it did prior to 9/11.

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Appeals court issues stay of judge’s decision blocking Trump’s anti-union order

The Trump administration may recommence stripping the union rights of two-thirds of the federal workforce, for now.

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A judge has moved again to block Trump’s anti-union EO

Just weeks after issuing a preliminary injunction to block an edict aimed at stripping two-thirds of the federal workforce of its collective bargaining rights, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman issued a similar decision as it relates to U.S. Foreign Service officers.

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The Trump administration is pausing RIFs but probationary firings are resuming

Some agencies have walked back their layoffs, but the court order spurring that action is not preventing re-firings.

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FBI to reassign 1,500 employees outside of D.C. area, vacate current HQ, Patel says

The location of the FBI’s headquarters has been a contested issue for more than a decade, as the downtown Hoover building deteriorates.

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Federal contract employees who alleged discrimination forced to wait as enforcement agency is dismantled

Layoffs are scheduled to take effect at the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs on June 6. Between the reduction in force and separation incentives, the agency’s workforce is expected to shrink by about 90%.