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Federal law enforcement agencies commonly provide that benefit veterans, but practices vary by agency and by the legal authority invoked; veterans’ preference and court decisions require agencies to w...
A revived Schedule F—now styled Schedule Policy/Career or Schedule Career/Policy—seeks to reclassify certain career civil service jobs into an excepted-service category, a process agencies have been i...
Federal employees can appeal position classification and reclassification decisions through agency appeal systems and to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) under 5 U.S.C. Chapter 51 and 5 C.F.R....
President Trump is taking multiple steps that his critics and some legal scholars interpret as an effort to expand presidential control over the executive branch, including moves targeting independent...
There is no single, explicit federal statute that on its face says “the government may not create a database of citizens to use for retaliation,” but multiple overlapping legal regimes substantially c...
Federal applicants told a polygraph was “unsuccessful” have several administrative and legal pathways: internal agency appeals and retesting, requests for corroborating adjudicative information under ...
Federal retirees do have administrative appeal routes when an Office of Personnel Management (OPM) decision reduces or otherwise adversely affects an annuity, and legal advisers urge using OPM reconsi...
Several appeals and recent appellate rulings have already changed settlement and personnel outcomes tied to President Trump: a D.C. Circuit panel held that the president may remove NLRB and MSPB membe...
Federal law long provides anti‑retaliation protections for whistleblowers — including remedies through the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Office of Special Counsel, and statutory programs like th...
Institutions use a mix of formal policies, training programs and legal channels to discourage compliance with manifestly illegal orders — especially in the military, federal civil service and regulate...
Available reporting in the provided results does not directly answer whether ICE agents can be fired for off‑duty extremist activity; none of the supplied items cites the civil‑service or criminal sta...
Federal civil‑service law gives employees strong , but the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) itself does not create special rules specifically for funding lapses or shutdown pay; those shutdown‑specific...
The governing legal distinction between a federal and a federal is established primarily in Title 5 of the U.S. Code and implementing regulations: is a temporary nonduty, nonpay status while is an inv...
The materials provided do not contain a clear or direct description of the formal for a disqualification decision for an ICE agent applicant; instead, the documents focus on related controversies abou...
President Trump’s statements about executive power are interpreted in three consistent but divergent ways across the provided analyses: as an extension of long-standing presidential practice, as an ag...