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Federal district Judge Richard Leon acknowledged the potential for precedent with NTEU's lawsuit if he denies the motion to dismiss the case, which challenges the Antideficiency Act's legal interpretation that has set up recent government shutdowns.
Roughly 39 percent of federal employees said they were "unprepared" or "very unprepared" for the recent government shutdown, according to a survey from Clever Real Estate.
The government can't shut down again until September but that may not be reassuring. For many federal employees, the last event produced a permanent sense of uncertainty.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said it now has the capability to make its charge processing and records system fully digital.
If Uncle Sam kept a list of endangered workers, folks under the old Civil Service Retirement System would be at the top. Less than six of every 100 workers still on the payroll are under the system that was phased out in the mid 1980s.
The National Science Foundation is looking for concrete, technological ideas through the Career Compass Challenge that it could pilot broad reskilling effort across the federal workforce. But NSF also sees the challenge as a potential spark for culture change.
At least five bills have been reintroduced in the 116th Congress by incumbent lawmakers. And as the fog of last month's partial government shutdown clears, it's possible more bills have or will resurface.
Michelle Thomsen, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, is a long-time federal and recently won a major award from the National Academies of Science.
Employer branding is one of the chief battlefields in the fight for talent. The government is not well-positioned for that fight.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a federal retiree who says the state of West Virginia unfairly taxed his annuity income.
The Navy is adopting DISA's Purebred program for its tens of thousands of government-issued mobile devices. It's part of a broader rethinking of identity management across the service.
Folks under the old Civil Service Retirement System, like people who get Social Security benefits, are protected from inflation. But most people on the federal pay roll are under FERS.
Federal agencies in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area are open Thursday. Federal employees have the option to take unscheduled leave or telework, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
Within the next decade “nearly all” of the current senior Foreign Service members will be eligible to retire, as will 80 percent of the current Civil Service’s SES, according to the agency’s five-year Workforce and Leadership Succession Plan.