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Federal contractors affected by the 35-day partial government shutdown won't receive back pay under the spending deal reached by Congress, but the Small Business Administration is gathering information on shutdown's overall impact on small businesses.
President Donald Trump signed the 2019 spending bill into law, securing a 1.9 percent pay raise for federal employees that will be retroactive to Jan. 1.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Congressional Budget Office takes a look at just how much it will cost for the Defense Department to go through with all of its plans for the near future.
Labor groups representing Federal Aviation Administration employees warned House lawmakers another partial government shutdown would further harm the agency's ability to recruit and retain highly skilled staff.
The Navy plans to eliminate its office of Assistant Secretary for Installations, Energy and Environment in favor of a new Senate-confirmed position: Assistant Secretary for Information Management.
We’ll know soon enough about the latest shutdown, but the pay raise is a little more complicated. H.R. 790 passed the House easily but has remained stagnant in the Senate since Jan. 31.
A 1.9 percent pay raise looks more likely for federal employees in 2019, as lawmakers finalize a spending package designed to avoid another government shutdown.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday cleared two of the President's nominees to fill the Merit Systems Protection Board. But Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said he won't bring those nominations to the Senate floor for a vote until the White House names a third nominee.
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, along with Reps. Gerry Connolly and Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.), want to know why there have been so many challenges in issuing full and correct back pay to federal employees after the recent government shutdown.
House and Senate appropriators appear to have come up with a 2019 funding solution for both sides, but the 35-day shutdown continues to teach through the stories it produced.
Government has the job of being an honest broker of information, if agencies can stay open to issue it.
The IRS is still reeling from the effects of the 35-day shutdown that ended last month, according to the agency’s taxpayer watchdog office.
Terry Gerton, president of NAPA, and Bill Valdez, president of the Senior Executives Association, detail three steps Congress and the Trump administration could take to ensure a reliable and fully functional government.
Identity theft protection coverage with ID Experts will continue for victims of the Office of Personnel Management's 2015 cyber breaches, the company announced Tuesday.