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Federal offices in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area are closed Thursday, the Office of Personnel Management announced Wednesday night. Most federal employees who are teleworking during the pandemic will continue to work a full day as usual.
The Defense Department cannot force service members to take the vaccine because it is under emergency-use authorization.
In today's Federal Newscast, coronavirus has returned to the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, the same carrier that saw a massive COVID-19 outbreak last year.
For how they're faring, Federal Drive with Tom Temin checked in with the Executive Director of the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights, Susan Tsui Grundmann.
Agencies should offer administrative leave to federal employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force says. The task force also suggested employees who ignore the mask mandate could face disciplinary action.
In today's Federal Newscast, the House Oversight and Reform Committee cleared a 570-million-dollar emergency paid leave sick leave bank for federal employees and postal workers.
We attempt to meet major challenges with civil service pay and job classification processes driven by a law that is 72 years old, and a hiring process that limits the government’s ability to compete for talent.
Tests on VA's new system showed more than 500 serious problems as recently as last summer. The department managed to resolve or work around almost all of them by the time of its first deployment in October.
Federal retirements dipped to a 10-year low in 2020. With the pandemic changing the way federal employees work and live, are you thinking about your retirement plans differently today? Tell us about your retirement plans in Federal News Network's anonymous, online survey.
What will the clearance jobs market look like in 2021? Find out from Evan Lesser, founder and president of ClearanceJobs.com, as he joins Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access.
Leave has been a hot commodity for federal employees in the pandemic. Congress has made a handful of attempts to add, preserve or clarify paid leave for feds during the health crisis. Now, there's a new effort.
Agencies are turning more and more to direct hire authorities instead of the usual competitive hiring procedures to bring on new talent to government, a recent study from the Merit Systems Protection Board finds.
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) says agencies relied on "smart IT investments" to disburse COVID-19 pandemic stimulus, but the Senate is passing on plans to give $9 billion to the Technology Modernization Fund.
Legislative actions over the last few years have failed to ensure spouses of relocated service members can find good employment. The National Military Spouse Network has some fresh recommendations to help.