New OPM guidance clarified that agencies can let employees working on RIFs continue doing their jobs, with no lapses, throughout a government shutdown.

The Office of Management and Budget issued a memo late Wednesday directing agencies to prepare for mass layoffs in the event ...

The US government may lose more than 100,000 federal workers on Tuesday week as a government shutdown looms increasingly ...

If the federal government shuts down on Oct. 1, some programs will continue functioning. Federal employees deemed essential ...

Federal News Network’s Terry Gerton has tips on what federal workers could be doing to prepare for a potential government ...

The looming threat of a government shutdown will be familiar to many federal employees. But this year is raising additional questions about the impacts.

The New York Times photographed and interviewed two dozen former federal workers from across the country to get a sense of ...

Social Security is considered mandatory, and funding for those programs is generally unaffected by a shutdown. Medicare ...

The White House has directed federal agencies to consider handing out pink slips if the government shuts down.

Several organizations have sprung up since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term to help civil servants who have ...

Staying open: The VA’s primary call center, its veterans crisis line, suicide prevention programs, homelessness services, and ...

At 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, the federal government will shut down unless Congress can pass a short-term funding ...