Federal Employee & Shutdown Watch

Track federal employment for US government workers and retirees. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: appropriations and continuing resolution deadlines with shutdown risk, furlough and excepted employee guidance; federal pay raise, locality pay and pay table changes; RIF, reorganization, hiring freeze and deferred resignation notices by agency with counts and deadlines; FEHB open season dates and premium changes by plan; TSP fund, withdrawal and rule changes; OPM retirement processing backlog data; agency telework, schedule and relocation changes; and MSPB, OPM and court rulings on federal employee rights. Prefer congressional, OPM, agency, TSP, MSPB and union sources; ignore rumors and unconfirmed memos. Put the agency or deadline first in the title. Use high severity for a shutdown deadline within 14 days, a RIF notice, or a FEHB or TSP deadline within 30 days. Return no more than 8 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what is happening, who is affected, the deadline, what to do, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.