"Who Protects the Worker?" Panel Discussion

Federal Workforce Changes, Fair Treatment, and What They Could Mean for All Employees

Federal employees have long operated under a distinct set of protections, procedures designed to guard against arbitrary termination and ensure a fair process before someone loses their job. This year, those protections have been tested on a scale not seen in generations. This virtual panel brings together legal and workforce experts for a substantive, non-partisan conversation about what due process looks like inside the federal government right now, how recent changes have unfolded, and what those changes could mean for workers well beyond Washington.

The panel will explore three central questions. First, how federal due process protections have historically served as a floor, a baseline that private-sector labor law and workplace norms have built upon over decades. Second, what the documented record shows about how recent federal workforce actions have played out, without the panel rendering a…