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 ...

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.

But in doing so, OPM may have violated laws dictating how the agency must plan for using databases with personally identifiable information. “At best, the Trump Administration’s actions at OPM ...

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, ...

According to a Jan. 21 memo available online, OPM directed agencies — which are now engaged in the process of shutting down diversity initiatives — to collect reports of any efforts to disguise such ...

The White House has not responded to a request for comment on Musk’s official role or the setup of the DOGE, and OPM did not respond to a request for comment for this story. Last week ...

Leaders at the agency this week released a 12-page report outlining OPM’s recent accomplishments, from measures to improve pay equity and increase early-career recruitment of federal workers to ...

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 two officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said some senior career employees at OPM have had their access revoked to some of the department's data ...

Melvin Brown II, who previously served as OPM’s deputy chief information officer, was named OPM’s chief information officer this week, according to a LinkedIn post he published Sunday.

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 ...