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Bloomberg Law recently published an op-ed written by Shareholder Courtney Mickman and Senior Counsel Jenny Knopinski.  In the piece, “Civil Service Protections Benefit the Public,...

The Tampa Bay Times published an article, “Disabled veterans say St. Petersburg VA is discriminating with back-to-work policy,” about the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’...

On June 3, 2026, President Donald Trump signed an executive order reclassifying certain career federal employee positions into Schedule Policy/Career (“Schedule P/C”) of the excepted...

Earlier this week, President Trump signed an executive order converting approximately 10,000 career federal employee to Schedule Policy/Career (“Schedule P/C”).  As a result, these employees...

Government Executive recently published an op-ed by Shareholders Nekeisha Campbell and Courtney Mickman.  The article, titled “Critics argue new federal workforce rules increase the risk...

In normal circumstances, your employer can charge you as absent without leave (AWOL) and discipline or fire you for not coming to work.  But what...

If you are a federal employee who received a bad performance review, you may feel lost with nowhere to go for help. Performance reviews are...

COBRA Protections and Eligibility – Part 1  What is Cobra?  In 1985, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (“COBRA”) gave employees and their families the...