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Veterans’ Preference Does Not Apply to Contractor Jobs – Here Is What Does
The first six words of 5 U.S.C. 2108 decide the question. "For the purpose of this title" is how the section defining a preference eligible opens, and that title governs federal government employees. A Leidos requisition at Aberdeen sits outside it, and so does a Booz Allen slot … more
W-2, 1099, or Corp-to-Corp on a Cleared Contract: Which One Actually Pays More
One sentence in the industrial-security rule decides more than any tax table. 32 CFR 117.10(a)(7): contractors "will not submit requests for determination of eligibility ... for individuals who are not their employees or consultants; nor ... for employees of subcontractors." Read… more
Do Government Contractors Get Paid During a Shutdown?
When Congress ended the 2025 shutdown on November 12, 2025, it did not forget the people who had gone unpaid. Section 116 of Public Law 119-37 made federal employees whole. Section 120 rescinded reduction-in-force notices issued during the lapse and returned those employees to du… more
Which Jobs Actually Require a Secret Clearance – and Which Ones Only Say They Do
On October 1, 2017, 1,198,684 people held eligibility for access to classified information and were in access to nothing at all. No document, no program, no compartment. They were 29.7 percent of the 4,030,625 individuals ODNI counted as eligible that year, and it is the most rec… more
What DCSA Actually Does: The Agency That Decides Whether Your New Hire Can Start
High-risk federal vetting cases closed in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025 averaged 220 days start to finish. Twelve of those days were intake. Forty belonged to the adjudicator. The remaining 168, better than three-quarters of the total, were the background investigation itself… more