On April 21, 2025, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published a proposed rule to the Federal Register that would allow the President and OPM to fire a whole class of federal employees without warning, reason, or due ... Read More
An Employment Lawyer’s Analysis of OPM’s Sample Deferred Resignation Agreement
On January 28, 2025, “hr@opm.gov” transmitted to almost all federal employees an email with the subject “Fork in the Road,” purporting to offer a deferred resignation program. The email offered federal employees until ... Read More
Caution – “Deferred Resignation Program” – is not a “Buyout”
On January 28, 2025, hr@opm.gov transmitted to almost all federal employees an email with the subject “Fork in the Road,” purporting to offer a “deferred resignation program. The email provides federal employees until February 6, ... Read More
OPM issues guidance on Schedule Policy/Career
This morning, the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Acting Director Charles Ezell issued a memorandum to all heads and acting heads of agencies entitled Guidance on Implementing President Trump’s Executive Order titled, ... Read More
OPM Issues New Final Rule Rescinding Trump-Era Regulations that Prohibited Clean-Record Agreements
On November 10, 2022, the Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) issued a new regulation rescinding various regulations implemented during the Trump Administration pertaining to agencies’ handling of proposed adverse actions, ... Read More