{"id":2698,"date":"2026-05-27T12:53:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:04:39","slug":"administration-proposes-requiring-all-federal-workers-to-sign-ndas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/2026\/05\/27\/administration-proposes-requiring-all-federal-workers-to-sign-ndas\/","title":{"rendered":"Administration proposes requiring all federal workers to sign NDAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/trump-administration\/trump-administration-floats-requiring-federal-workers-sign-ndas-rcna346958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article by the NBC News on<\/a> May 26, 2026, By Dareh Gregorian and Sarah Dean<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cThe Trump administration is proposing a rule to require federal workers to sign nondisclosure agreements, according to a draft notice the Office of Personnel Management posted Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rule will be officially published Wednesday, setting off a 30-day public comment period. The notice says individual \u201cagencies would have discretion whether to use the NDA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe notice says NDAs would not deter employees from making legally allowed \u201cdisclosures to Congress, an Inspector General, or other designated individuals that are protected under the Whistleblower Protection Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedweek.com\/fedweek\/opm-cites-leaks-as-justification-for-new-nda-chilling-effect-predicted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Article by FED Week May 27, 2026<\/strong><\/a> by FED Week staff \u2013 OPM Cites Leaks as Justification for New NDA; Chilling Effect Predicted. \u201cIn crafting a proposed nondisclosure agreement for government-wide use, OPM cited as justification recent leaks, but an employee union and a law firm specializing in federal employment law say that the government already has rules against such disclosures and that the form will have a chilling effect on employees\u2019 free speech rights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Administration through OPM proposes all Federal Employees and Former Employees sign NDA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/05\/graphic-news-for-feds2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}