Payroll July 8, 2025
Justices let President Trump move ahead with plans to dramatically reduce the size of the federal government, lifting a court order that had blocked several departments and agencies, including the IRS, from slashing their workforces.
Payroll June 5, 2025
Members of a House subcommittee questioned Russell Vought on June 4 over the Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers, freezing of federal grants and trampling Congress’ authority.
IRS May 22, 2025
After being on paid administrative leave since mid-March, IRS probationary employees have been told to return to the office by May 23, after being fired by the Trump administration in February and reinstated a month later.
Payroll May 12, 2025
President Donald Trump’s February executive order calling for a radical reorganization of the federal workforce likely violates the Constitution, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston said.
Payroll April 28, 2025
Federal employee pension benefits are set to be pared back in Republicans’ giant tax-and-spending package working its way through the U.S. House, another slap at a workforce roiled by Elon Musk’s cost-cutting efforts.
Payroll April 25, 2025
A new rule proposed by the Office of Personnel Management, named Schedule Policy/Career, would reclassify certain workers as at-will employees and strip them of prior civil service regulations meaning they would be easier to fire.
Payroll February 7, 2025
Now the Trump administration is signaling a tougher posture in its bid to shrink the government’s workforce, asking federal agencies to draw up lists of their poorest performing employees by March 7.
IRS February 6, 2025
The IRS has notified workers essential to tax season that they must work until May even if they accepted the Trump administration's federal employee buyout offer, the deadline of which was put on hold temporarily by a federal judge on Feb. 6.