Are you a federal employee or contractor who has been impacted by the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the federal workforce? Send us a voice note through the WTOP News app, available on Apple ...

Since the wave of U.S. government layoffs began, the independent agency that adjudicates a federal worker’s challenge of their dismissal has seen its case load skyrocket. The U.S. Merit Systems ...

WASHINGTON — A government watchdog wants more than 5,000 probationary employees to be reinstated at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the latest example of resistance to President Donald Trump 's ...

Thousands of federal workers fired in recent days by the Trump administration may be able to use an appeals process to get reinstated in their jobs — and potentially receive back pay. But the process ...

The Merit Systems Protection Board is set to both propose and implement new rules aimed at making it easier for the agency to maintain operations in situations where the adjudicative body atop the ...

The Merit Systems Protection Board will be down a board member as of Friday, leaving its quorum on a knife’s edge. Board member and Biden appointee Raymond Limon will retire on Friday nearly three ...

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, ...

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily reinstated Cathy Harris, the chairwoman of the Merit Systems Protection Board, after she was fired by President Donald Trump. U.S. District Judge Rudolph ...