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Comment closes 28 September 2026. This one is not a spectator sport. August 28, 2026 A proposed EEOC rule would end federal employees’ guaranteed right to a hearing before an administrative judge, eliminate discovery, and bar class complaints in the federal-sector EEO process entirely. Comments close 28 September 2026. Attention F4F friends, supporters, and members. Of everything in this two-month catch-up, this is the one that reaches into our own docket. On 26 August 20

Ninety-nine percent of the comments said don’t. They did. August 04, 2026 Four final rules published 03–04 August 2026 move RIF appeals, suitability actions, and probationary appeals out of the Merit Systems Protection Board and into OPM — with review by the OPM Director and no appeal to the Federal Circuit. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): the agency that writes the personnel rules now judges the appeals from them. OPM finalized four regulations published in the Federal Regi