Today, after Paul Ingrassia withdrawing his nomination to lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), six leading groups in the nonpartisan Make It Safe Coalition (MISC) sent a letter to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) urging aggressive oversight to restore credible whistleblower protection rights and prevent a spoils system.
Last week the Make It Safe Coalition (MISC), a nonpartisan coalition fighting for whistleblower protections, sent written comments on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposed rule to implement Executive Order (EO) 14172, “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service.”
Department of Homeland Security employees say they are undergoing an increasing number of polygraph exams under Secretary Kristi Noem's direction to determine if they are being disloyal and leaking information to the media.
Stacey Young, a career federal litigator who left the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division after Trump’s inauguration, in January founded the Justice Connection, an organization that supports the department’s current and former employees. The goal is to have an “army of alumni from the largest law firm in the world” prepared to help DOJ employees through the complex federal employment appeals process when they are fired, demoted or face other related issues.
It has proven to be an eventful first month of the new administration with multiple executive orders, memoranda issued, and lawsuits filed in response. Things are moving quickly and should be continually monitored for developments occurring on a weekly (if not daily) basis. This article provides a brief – and far from exhaustive – overview of the employment-related actions and reactions.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the reinstatement, at least temporarily, of the Biden-appointed chair of the federal board that hears appeals of disciplinary actions against federal employees, ruling that the Trump administration had not articulated adequate grounds for her removal.
The White House has fired a number of federal employees charged with nonpartisan oversight and whistleblower protection in recent days. It comes as DOGE implements sweeping changes and faces criticism about the transparency of its actions.
The suit, filed in the federal district court in the District of Columbia, is at least the third seeking to block the conversion to the excepted service of potentially many tens of thousands of employees now in the competitive service, joining separate suits filed by the NTEU and AFGE unions.
A fourth lawsuit was filed Thursday challenging Trump’s executive order that creates a new class of federal employees that can be swiftly hired and fired like political appointees. The new case, filed in Washington, D.C.’s federal district court, is being brought by the Government Accountability Project and the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association.
Protect Democracy and Selendy Gay PLLC filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of D.C. on behalf of the Government Accountability Project and the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE), challenging the Trump Administration’s attempt to dismantle a cornerstone of American democracy: a federal civil service rooted in merit and integrity.
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