The Trump administration and federal employee unions are in a head-to-head lobbying battle as workers face a Feb. 6 deadline to decide whether they want to accept a government buyout. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has led the charge in offering eight months of pay and benefits to workers should they wish to leave the

A Boston federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s resignation offer to federal civilian employees on Thursday.

Here’s what we know about the deferred resignation program offered to federal employees by the Trump administration.

As thousands of federal workers agonize over whether they should try to keep their jobs or submit to an unprecedented resignation push from President Trump, a legal battle is quickly taking shape, adding another complicated layer to an already chaotic situation.

Unions representing many of the nation’s 2.3 million federal workers charge that the administration’s “unprecedented offer” violates the law.

The administration set a deadline for Thursday at 11:59 p.m. Eastern for employees to decide on the offer. But a federal judge in Massachusetts paused the deadline until at least a hearing set for Monday at 2 p.

A federal judge on Thursday pushed back to Monday a deadline for U.S. government employees to opt into the Trump administration's "deferred resignation" program offering workers nearly eight months of pay and benefits to leave their jobs.

Thursday was supposed to be decision day. But then a federal judge suspended Trump's buyouts for workers until at least Monday.

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal employees by offering them financial incentives