Public Employees Deserve Legal Protection
PEER counsels conscientious public employees facing career-changing moments of both crises and opportunity. We work on many fronts to protect public servants, specializing in whistleblower protections, First Amendment rights, and civil service laws. PEER plays an invaluable role in the environmental movement and in how the government operates. We aim to stop the assault on the government workforce and to give voice to the public servants who are working for transparency and accountability in government.
Across the country, those charged with protecting our environment are the victims of harassment, threats, assault, and intimidation both in the field and in the office.
PEER is there to protect conscientious public employees facing adverse consequences for simply doing their jobs.
LAWSUIT: Trump’s executive order to fire government workers is illegal
Trump’s order, nearly identical to his previous Schedule F executive order in 2020, would lay the groundwork to convert a huge percentage of the federal civil service from employees who can only be fired for cause to at-will employees who can be fired for any reason at all.
NEWS FROM PEER
COMMENTARY | Trump’s First Months in Office: PEER’s Response
PEER is working to protecting the integrity of the civil service and represent government employees under attack by the Trump administration.
Mass Involuntary Idling of Federal Employees Is Illegal
Excessive Use of Administrative Leave Harms Civil Servants and Taxpayers
Comment – Schedule P/C
Comment to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in opposition to the Proposed Rule “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service”
Trump’s New Employee Schedule Is a Formula for Corruption
Federal Employees’ Ability to Resist or Report Wrongdoing Disabled
TELL CONGRESS | Stop the Destruction of NOAA
Letter telling Congress to stop the destruction of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Amicus Brief – AFGE, AFL-CIO, et al. Motion for Preliminary Injunction
Brief of Amicus Curiae Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in Support of American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, et al., Motion for Preliminary Injunction
Video | Impacted Federal Workers on the Importance of Environmental Justice at EPA
Listen to the stories of federal workers impacted by the Trump administration’s and EPA’s plans to shut down all 11 environmental justice offices.
New Interior Department Czar Abuses Authority
Whistleblower Retaliation and Cybersecurity Violations Among First Acts
TELL CONGRESS | Stop Trump’s Efforts to Destroy our National Parks and Public Lands
Sign the letter telling Congress to stop the Trump administration from turning public lands over to private commercial interests and environmental polluters.
Letter to DOC Secretary Lutnick – NOAA probationary employees
Letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick regarding recently fired probationary employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA Probationers Endure Insults Piled Atop Injuries
Callous, Careless Mistakes Plague Those Rehired and Refired
Senior Interior Attorney Faces Dismissal in DOGE Dust-Up
Effort to Protect Payroll and Personnel Data Security Deemed “Subversive”
COMMENTARY | Public Lands Unprotected: The Impact of Department of the Interior Law Enforcement Firings
With understaffing of law enforcement officers and rangers already a severe problem, the new wave of terminations is exacerbating under-enforcement into crisis status.
EPA Environmental Justice Staff Seeks Return to Work
“EJ” Employees’ Class Action Pursues Reassignment and Escape from Limbo
Big Brother Beckons EPA’s Workforce
Agency Offers Free Wi-Fi Connectivity to Employees’ Personal Devices
Federal Civil Service Court Shuttered When Most Needed
MSPB Quorum Loss Hobbles Whistleblower, RIF & Due Process Protections
More than 100,000 Federal Employees Paid Not to Work
Nearly 5% of Civilian Workforce Now on Paid Administrative Leave and Counting
Lawsuit Says Government Cannot Silence Employees
Federal Agency Restraints on Employee Private Social Activism Challenged
TELL CONGRESS | End the Musk/Trump Takeover of NOAA
Letter telling Congress to put an end to the Musk/Trump takeover of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
COMMENTARY | May Federal Employees Be Activists?
PEER is engaged in precedent-setting work to secure the rights of federal employees to publish and be active in civic organizations on their own time.
