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Employees have until June 30 to donate through the Combined Federal Campaign to charities supporting the coronavirus response. The Office of Personnel Management launched a special solicitation window this week.
Untold numbers of businesses are applying for federal assistance, including federal contractors. But federal loans and grants come with strings.
When its Mexico border apprehensions soared last year, Customs and Border Protection hired a contractor to build a temporary detention center. It could hold 2,500 detainees, but in reality, it never had more than a few dozen at a time.
The Census Bureau’s efforts to get a snapshot of conditions under the pandemic comes a few weeks after calls for Congress to fund a “robust data infrastructure” under the CARES Act went unheeded.
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service took steps before the coronavirus pandemic to set up one-third of its mediators with video teleconferencing capabilities. Now all 150 FMCS mediators are conducting virtual meetings with employers, agencies and unions.
Recent forced departures of high profile inspectors general under controversial circumstances haven't sat well with whistleblower advocates.
It looks as if there is solid commitment on the part of the government to ensure contractor employees, who can't get on premises to do their work, to get paid leave.
In today's Federal Newscast, a supplies command center has been established by the Postal Service, to help its employees get masks, gloves, hand sanitizer and other coronavirus supplies.
OMB released much-anticipated guidance giving agencies important direction for how they should implement the provision in the stimulus bill that lets agencies pay contractors to keep them in a state of ready.
Essye Miller, the Defense Department’s principal deputy chief information officer, is retiring in June after 35 years of federal service. She will be replaced by John Sherman, who will come over from being the IC CIO since 2017.
Agency heads now have a detailed decision-making framework from the Trump administration, which describes how, consistent with local conditions, they should gradually begin to reopen federal offices and call their employees back from mandatory telework programs during the coronavirus pandemic.
Congress is regrouping to figure out a fourth stimulus bill. Several members have said it should focus on infrastructure.
In today's Federal Newscast, agencies are starting to make some initial preparations for employees to return to the office.
It’s been several years since budget challenges caused federal agencies to offer widespread buyouts and early-outs to their workforces, but the Defense Contract Management Agency is finding itself in that position now.