by Liz Newman | Mar 13, 2025 | 2025 Executive Orders
When you see the news at 2pm on a Tuesday that the White House lawn has been turned into a car dealership, it is difficult to not turn to social media and comment. However, when they are not selling cars, they are monitoring employee access and use of email, social...
by Liz Newman | Feb 24, 2025 | 2025 Executive Orders
On Saturday, while most Federal employees were not in a duty status, they received another harassing email from the infamous hr@opm.gov instructing them to “reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week…” However, by Sunday evening,...
by Liz Newman | Feb 12, 2025 | 2025 Executive Orders
With the threat of broad and ill-defined “audits” in the Federal government comes the threat of investigatory interviews. Answers to questions during an investigation may be used against a federal employee to compromise her rights and benefits under Federal law. Prior...
by Liz Newman | Feb 5, 2025 | 2025 Executive Orders
“Special” Government Employee Elon Musk has again threatened Federal employees to accept his offer of “deferred resignation” or otherwise potentially face their positions being abolished through a reduction-in-force. In fact, in attempt to further persuade Federal...
by Liz Newman | Feb 4, 2025 | 2025 Executive Orders
On the evening of February 3, 2025, some Federal employees received a draft Deferred Resignation Agreement, wherein, in exchange for agreeing to, among other things, a “deferred resignation” on/by September 30, 2025 and waiving any action against “[Agency],”...
by Liz Newman | Jan 30, 2025 | 2025 Executive Orders
On January 28, 2025, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offered the majority of Federal Executive Branch Employees the option of a “deferred resignation program,” wherein the employee will not have to return to the office, if they agree to resign by September...
