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  • 1 week ago | federalnewsnetwork.com | Drew Friedman

    A union is warning about the risks of moving too fast on the Trump administration’s plans to consolidate federal programs for wildland firefighters, as the U.S. heads into an intense wildfire season.

  • 1 week ago | federalnewsnetwork.com | Drew Friedman

    The Trump administration is attempting to address what it says are inflated numbers of high-performing federal employees, while also telling agencies to swiftly discipline or remove any feds deemed poor performers. In a memo published Tuesday, the Office of Personnel Management told agencies to begin adopting a new performance management system designed by the Trump administration.

  • 1 week ago | federalnewsnetwork.com | Drew Friedman

    The Interior Department and the Agriculture Department’s U.S. Forest Service are expected to soon merge their federal wildland firefighting programs, according to an executive order President Donald Trump signed last week.

  • 2 weeks ago | federalnewsnetwork.com | Drew Friedman

    Despite taking some proposed cuts to federal benefits off the table, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is still looking to remove civil service job protections for federal employees as part of the GOP reconciliation process. The Senate committee’s proposal for the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” released Thursday, kept three of four key sections impacting the federal workforce that House lawmakers passed last month.

  • 4 weeks ago | federalnewsnetwork.com | Drew Friedman

    The Merit Systems Protection Board is once again in familiar territory as it deals with a loss of quorum on its three-member board, which has created some limitations in the work the agency is currently able to process. MSPB is generally responsible for adjudicating appeals on federal personnel cases, aiming to protect federal employees against prohibited personnel practices such as whistleblower retaliation. But without a board quorum, some specific actions at MSPB cannot be finalized.

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