Government Shutdown
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For much of the federal workforce in 2019, what employees thought they knew about their pay, benefits, workplace flexibilities and even the location of their offices in some cases, were in flux.
December 27, 2019 -
With little time to spare before the deadline, President Donald Trump signed two shutdown-averting spending bills into law and a 3.1% federal pay raise. He also signed the annual defense authorization bill, which includes a new paid parental leave program for most federal employees.
December 20, 2019 -
The Senate has sent two minibus spending bills to the president's desk for his signature. President Donald Trump must sign both by Friday to avoid a second government shutdown in 2019.
December 19, 2019 -
The House has sent "minibus" spending bills, which include a 3.1% federal pay raise, to the Senate for its consideration. Congress must pass and the president must sign both bills into law by Friday to avoid a second government shutdown this year.
December 17, 2019 -
House leaders have unveiled a $1.4 trillion government-wide spending package that's carrying an unusually large load of unrelated provisions
December 16, 2019 -
A 3.1% federal pay raise is a key feature of one of two "minibus" spending bills, which congressional appropriators unveiled Monday evening. Both the House and Senate are expected to quickly vote on both this week before Friday's funding deadline.
December 16, 2019 -
The Office of Management and Budget’s general counsel reversed long-time policy that required agencies to automatically report Antideficiency Act violations to GAO and Congress. Now agencies must report only if they and OMB decides a violation occurred.
December 16, 2019 -
Although more of the impeachment paroxysm is forthcoming, to say nothing of Christmas.
December 16, 2019 -
If there’s a government shutdown next year, in late 2020, will air traffic controllers on paid parental leave actually get paid?
December 16, 2019 -
A year ago this week some long-service, long-suffering federal government workers were prepping for the slim possibility of a government shutdown over Christmas.
December 13, 2019 -
Twelve weeks of paid parental leave is the main attraction in the House-passed defense authorization bill, but it has a lot more for civilian federal employees.
December 11, 2019 -
Bloomberg Government Editorial Director Loren Duggan previews what we can expext from Congress ahead of the coming Christmas break.
December 09, 2019 -
For the second year in a row more than a million feds aren’t sure if they’ll be forced to come to work or be locked with or without pay over the holidays.
December 09, 2019 -
U.S. attorneys say a series of challenges from the National Treasury Employees Union on the last government shutdown should be dismissed because the union can't demonstrate their exact legal injuries could be repeated. The deadline to avoid another government shutdown is Dec. 20.
December 05, 2019 -
Six years after the 2013 government shutdown, attorneys have determined exactly how many federal employees are eligible for liquidated damages based on a class-action lawsuit, but it's still unclear how much they're owed.
December 04, 2019