OPM is also developing new performance metrics for federal employees to align with “priorities and standards in the president’s recent executive orders.” ...

Hundreds of federal workers process thousands of retirement applications every month, by hand in a converted former mine.

Anonymous federal employees filed a lawsuit alleging that the new email system could be placing their sensitive personal ...

Filed by two anonymous federal employees in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the class-action lawsuit calls for OPM to stop the use of the system until the agency can show that it ...

An OPM spokesperson did not return requests for comment asking about the lawsuit and how the email system was implemented. A major OPM breach discovered in 2015 exposed the personal records of ...

OPM declined to comment on the lawsuit. McClanahan noted that the emails appear to be an effort to create a master list of federal government employees, as “System of Records Notices” are ...

OPM did not respond to a request for comment. The request for a restraining order against the use of the new system comes as the federal government is pushing employees to respond to the buyout ...

alleging that the Office of Personnel Management violated the law by not publishing a privacy impact assessment before deploying the new system, leaving sensitive data about federal employees ...