If the request is granted, OPM would be forced to disconnect its server until it can construct a plan for how to protect employees’ data, a requirement of the E-Government Act of 2002.

An attorney representing unnamed OPM employees asked a judge on Jan. 27 to issue a temporary restraining order halting the system as it represented a grave security risk to roughly 2 million ...

House Oversight Democrats are demanding answers about the installation of a “server of unknown nature and origin” at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that aided the agency in sending ...

General employees, according to OPM, can be filled by a range of people, including “career, noncareer, limited term or limited emergency” senior executive branch appointees. Career reserved positions, ...

The cutoff to take the deal had been set to expire on Feb. 6 at midnight Eastern time before the ruling from U.S. District Judge George O'Toole barred the OPM from implementing the deadline.

A week after the U.S. Office of Personnel Management sent two million federal employees an email containing a deferred resignation offer, the OPM has sent out a second email with additional details.

Protesters congregated in front of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C., on a chilly Monday morning, vowing to return every morning this week to stand against what they called a ...

The executive suites on the fifth floor of OPM’s Washington headquarters are at the center of that effort. For career officials at the OPM, the alarm bells started going off during transition ...

Here’s some highlights from the FAQ. OPM said that federal workers are not expected to work if they take the offer, and are encouraged to find jobs in the private sector or take extended vacations.

The OPM, by design, doesn’t have the capacity to send mass emails to all federal workers, at least not without slow and expensive third-party help. Musk’s blitzkrieg couldn’t wait ...

Last month, the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, sent a notice offering more than 2 million federal workers the option of resigning their positions while retaining full pay and benefits ...