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Agencies spent nearly $10 billion for feds not to work in 2025
The use of paid administrative leave as part of the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, an effort to entice federal workers to quit, across government in 2025 was 435% higher than two years prior, according to a new GAO report.
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NSA's non-disclosure agreements lack whistleblower-rights provisions: watchdog
The inspector general report comes as the Trump administration considers imposing a standard NDA across government.
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Bill expanding paid leave for feds pared back in Senate
The upper chamber’s version removes provisions allowing the paid family leave to be used in connection with helping a family member who has been the victim of sexual assault, domestic violence, or stalking.
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Unions ask for injunction restoring collective bargaining at Defense
The latest filing says Pentagon strayed from the Trump administration’s own guidance for implementing an executive order banning collective bargaining at most agencies.
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Unions sue to restore Pentagon workers' collective-bargaining rights
SecDef Hegseth's no-warning termination of worker agreements broke the law and caused "confusion and disruption," the suit alleges.
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Trump wants to scrap a key framework for federal-employee discipline
Officials said the decades-old criteria used to punish misconduct are too restrictive and “mechanistic.” Practitioners disagree.
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New calls for lawmakers to override Trump’s anti-union EO at the Pentagon
Last year, the Senate blocked a House measure to halt ban on collective bargaining at the Defense Department and other agencies.
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Trump’s edict making 8,000 feds at-will employees draws swift outcry
Agencies have just one week to reclassify thousands of federal workers, stripping them of most civil service protections.
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Trump strips civil-service protections from thousands of feds
Defense, State, DHS positions among those converted to at-will jobs.
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OPM proposes requiring all feds to sign an NDA
Experts warned the measure, when combined with the federal HR agency’s new power to target employees’ suitability for federal employment, creates a new pathway for Trump administration officials to purge those deemed insufficiently loyal to the president.
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Hegseth orders termination of DOD union contracts
Federal court orders protect some collective-bargaining groups, but members of the American Federation of Government Employees remain vulnerable.
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The twists and turns of Trump’s 2025 war on unions
A look at how the Trump administration has sought to undermine collective bargaining at the Defense Department and across the federal government.
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Provision to protect DOD civilians’ union rights stripped from NDAA
The House dropped bipartisan language that would have nullified Trump's anti-union orders after the Senate balked at a fight.
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Feds should get at least most backpay by Nov. 19, administration says
Lawmakers added a provision for full backpay after the White House suggested it might illegally prevent workers from getting their money.
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OMB quietly deletes reference to law requiring back pay to furloughed feds
A White House FAQ now says restitution is only guaranteed to excepted employees forced to work without pay.
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House NDAA would exempt Defense civilians from union ban
Two executive orders seek to ban federal unions on national-security grounds.
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Thousands of Pentagon civilians and other feds are still waiting for their 2025 pay raise
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision last spring to shutter a slew of advisory committees has imperiled already-enacted pay raises for 60,000 federal employees in blue collar jobs.
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Administration, unions trade lawsuits over ‘national security' order to reduce feds' rights
U.S. agencies have asked a Trump-appointed judge to uphold a ban on unions for Defense civilians and two-thirds of the federal workforce.
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Trump aims to outlaw most government unions on ‘national security’ grounds
White House says little-used provision allows the president to exempt most federal jobs from union protections.
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Judge extends pause on ‘deferred-resignation’ offer
He wants more time to study plaintiffs' argument that the Trump-administration deal violates the law.
