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Reaching the editorial and research team behind Federal Employee Authority provides a structured way to submit corrections, request clarification on published reference material, or report gaps in coverage across the site's subject areas. This page explains how to direct a message appropriately, what geographic and subject-matter scope the site covers, what information to include for a complete and actionable submission, and what response timeline to expect based on the nature of the inquiry.

How to reach this office

All written inquiries are directed through the contact form hosted on this domain. The form routes submissions to the editorial desk, which handles four distinct categories of correspondence:

1. Factual correction requests — submissions identifying an error in a cited statute, regulatory figure, or attributed source
2. Coverage gap reports — requests to address a federal employment topic not yet published on the site
3. Source documentation requests — inquiries asking for the underlying regulatory basis for a published claim
4. Republication and licensing inquiries — questions about reproducing reference content in external publications or institutional training materials

Email submissions sent outside the form may not receive routing to the correct reviewer, which adds processing delay. The form is the single reliable intake channel.

Service area covered

Federal Employee Authority covers the civilian federal workforce governed by Title 5 of the U.S. Code and administered through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Coverage extends to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories where federal civilian employment law applies uniformly.

Subject-matter scope spans the full employment lifecycle: classification and pay under the General Schedule and locality pay systems, retirement systems including CSRS and FERS, health benefits, leave entitlements, disciplinary and adverse action procedures, whistleblower protections, and reduction-in-force rules.

The site does not cover state government employment, municipal employment, or private-sector labor law. Inquiries falling outside the federal civilian employment framework under Title 5, Title 22 (Foreign Service), or the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) fall outside the editorial scope and cannot receive substantive response.

Two categories of inquiry are explicitly outside scope:

• Legal representation requests — the site publishes reference content only and does not connect readers with attorneys or advocates
• Agency-specific procedural questions — questions requiring interpretation of an individual agency's internal directives or collective bargaining agreement terms

What to include in your message

A complete submission reduces handling time and improves the likelihood of a substantive response. The following breakdown identifies what each inquiry category requires.

For factual correction requests:
- The specific page URL and section heading where the error appears
- The claim believed to be incorrect, quoted exactly as published
- The authoritative source contradicting the published claim (statute citation, OPM regulation number, Federal Register notice, or named government publication)

For coverage gap reports:
- The specific topic or subtopic not addressed on the site
- The regulatory or statutory framework the topic falls under (e.g., 5 U.S.C. § 7512 for adverse actions, 5 C.F.R. Part 752)
- Whether the gap involves a recent statutory change, in which case the public law number or Federal Register citation should be included

For source documentation requests:
- The specific claim or figure in question with page URL
- The context in which the documentation is needed (academic, institutional, legal reference)

Submissions that omit the page URL and specific claim cannot be acted upon and receive a form response requesting the missing detail.

Response expectations

The editorial desk operates on a Monday-through-Friday schedule. Factual correction requests receive acknowledgment within 3 business days. Substantive review — meaning an editorial determination on whether a correction is warranted — takes up to 10 business days from the acknowledgment date, as each claim must be traced to its source document before a published page is modified.

Coverage gap reports are logged against the editorial calendar. Not all reported gaps result in published pages; priority is assigned based on the regulatory significance of the topic, the volume of similar requests received, and whether the gap falls within the site's defined scope. Submitters receive a single acknowledgment but do not receive ongoing status updates on editorial scheduling.

Source documentation requests are typically resolved within 5 business days, as most published claims already carry inline source attribution or can be traced to a specific OPM regulation or Title 5 provision.

Republication and licensing inquiries require a minimum of 15 business days for review, as those requests involve coordination beyond the editorial desk.

Submissions that do not align with any of the 4 categories listed above — including general questions about an individual's federal employment situation — fall outside the scope the editorial function can address, and those inquiries do not receive responses beyond an automated acknowledgment.

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