"The [board's] mission and purpose require independence," the judge writes. "The [board's] independence is therefore ...

It violates statutes, undoes a century of civil service reform, and would derail government services. The Washington Monthly is an independent voice, listened to by insiders and willing to take on ...

The last major civil service law was the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, which replaced the Civil Service Commission with the Office of Personnel Management and mandated that hiring and ...

The most recent major reform was the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, which created today’s Office of Personnel Management, the Merit System Protection Board, and the Federal Labor Relations ...

The latter were codified in 1939 in the Hatch Act. The last major civil service law was the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, which replaced the Civil Service Commission with the Office of Personnel ...

It’s too difficult to hire and fire federal workers. A grand bargain is possible, but that’s not what Trump seeks.