The Merit Systems Protection Board, or MSPB, is facing an avalanche of new cases as the Trump administration plows ahead with its efforts to significantly reduce the ranks of the federal government.

The Merit Systems Protection Board passed a new and unwanted milestone last week—five years without a quorum. The quasi-judicial agency, charged with protecting federal employees against improper ...

The Merit Systems Protection Board last week found that federal workers are only precluded from appealing adverse personnel actions in multiple forums if they have actually been informed of federal ...

President Donald Trump signs an executive order related to drug prices, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) (CN) — ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unlawfully fired the chairwoman of a regulatory board charged with overseeing employment complaints from federal workers and whistleblowers, a judge ruled Tuesday.

The agency responsible for arbitrating disputes with federal employees was compromised in an Iranian government-linked hack earlier this year, according to a report. Hackers exploited the well-known ...

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 ...

The Merit Systems Protection Board passed a new and unwanted milestone last week—five years without a quorum. The quasi-judicial agency, charged with protecting federal employees against improper ...

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 ...

The decision could apply more broadly to thousands of other government employees who were fired because they were on probationary status and relatively new in their positions. By Eileen Sullivan ...

Federal workers are rushing to a little-known and understaffed office to try to save their jobs from President Donald Trump’s mass government layoffs, in hopes that it will be a bulwark against the ...