Once a Champion for Trans Workers, the E.E.O.C. Is Now Walking Away

The nation’s primary regulator of workplace discrimination has moved to dismiss cases that may run afoul of President Trump’s executive order on gender.

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Can a Year-End Bonus Be Docked If You Took Maternity Leave?

Is it fair for management to dock someone’s annual incentive pay because of a maternity or medical leave?

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How Federal Employees Are Fighting Back Against Elon Musk

Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors.

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Denise Cheung, Top Prosecutor in U.S. Attorney’s Office, Abruptly Resigns

The resignation of the prosecutor, Denise Cheung, comes at a turbulent moment at the Justice Department, as Mr. Trump and his appointees seek to exert control over law enforcement actions.

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CFPB Employees Left Stranded and Confused After Stop-Work Orders

Since the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued stop-work orders, employees have been trying to decipher exactly what they mean.

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Worn Out by an Extrovert? You Can Go ‘Gray.’

Don’t engage an overbearing colleague — that is, be boring — and eventually the attention-seeker may give up and go away.

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Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies

The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.

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Official Email Urges Federal Workers to Find More Productive Jobs

The message reiterated an offer for a chance to take a second job or travel to a “dream destination” and remain on the federal payroll for months. But questions remain about whether that would be legal.

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Starbucks and Workers United Union Agree to Contract Mediation

A labor agreement, covering more than 500 U.S. stores, would be the company’s first. Talks stalled last year over wages.

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Silicon Valley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses’ Embrace of Trump

As Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans have embraced President Trump and muffled internal dissent at their companies, their mostly left-leaning employees have objected with subtle acts of defiance.

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