#labor
- OPM reopens its accountability rule to publish its data
- Labor rescinds the Executive Order 11246 regulations and finds it lacks authority for them
- OFCCP drops the disability utilization goal and leaves the veterans' benchmark standing
- August payrolls rise 162,000 and July's decline is revised away
- The MSPB retires the mandatory Douglas framework
- OPM takes probationary appeals from the MSPB too
- OPM's reduction-in-force rule puts performance first and takes probationers out of competition
- OPM replaces the MSPB on reduction-in-force appeals and bars judicial review
- OPM replaces the MSPB for suitability appeals too
- OPM makes electronic filing mandatory for pay claims
- Schedule Policy/Career at seven weeks: amended complaint, dismissal motion pending, a transparency demand
- The EEOC removes the Title VII affirmative action safe harbor
- Suitability actions now reach employees, not just applicants
- OPM becomes the gatekeeper of the SES pipeline
- Forced-labour Section 301 investigation reaches three-month mark
- Schedule Policy/Career week one: agency notices and pending litigation
- EO implements Schedule Policy/Career for ~8,000 positions
- OPM finalises Schedule Policy/Career rule
- EO 14284 makes probation end in termination by default
- EO 11246 grace period ends; § 3(b)(iv) certification enjoined by N.D. Ill.
- USAID workforce placed on administrative leave; TRO issued, then dissolved
- OPM offers federal workforce deferred resignations
- Affirmative-action contracting order rescinded
- Federal DEI programs ordered terminated
- Schedule F revived as Schedule Policy/Career