A new legal maneuver could test the independence of the board that hears appeals of personnel actions by the government.

Merit Systems Protection Board judges must consider whether government agencies have a constitutional basis to fire certain ...

Experts say the White House’s new theory that the 2019 Government Employee Fair Treatment Act does not guarantee feds backpay ...

This is a sponsored column by attorneys John Berry and Kimberly Berry of Berry & Berry, PLLC, an employment and labor law ...

President Trump’s firings at the Federal Reserve and other agencies with traditional independence from the political forces of the White House have presented the Supreme Court with a critical ...

After layoffs, it's unclear how many people are policing civil rights violations inside the Department of Homeland Security, ...

Trump’s shutdown threat tests the legal limits of firing federal workers and could erode long-standing protections.

President Trump’s firings at the Federal Reserve and other agencies with traditional independence from the political forces of the White House have presented the Supreme Court with a critical ...

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to formally consider overruling its 90-year-old precedent that enables Congress to provide certain agencies with a degree of independence from the White House, a major ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Trump to fire FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter and agreed to decide on the president’s ability to fire the heads of independent agencies. The case ...

President Donald Trump is urging the Supreme Court to examine his authority to remove officials from independent agencies, ...

Dissenting, Justice Elena Kagan said the court's emergency docket should not be used "to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of ...