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Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., questions Postmaster General Louis DeJoy during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on the Postal Service on Capitol Hill, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, in Washington. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP)

House Democrats demand immediate stop to Schedule F executive order

House Democrats are demanding the Trump administration immediately stop implementing the president’s Schedule F executive order until they can determine…

Workforce

Union, lawmakers attempt to block Schedule F executive order through new lawsuit, legislation

Workforce

Two Black federal employees, two totally different experiences

Tom Temin Commentary

Executive order obliterating civil service protections gets an F

Commentary

Agencies will have some say in what positions will be classified in new schedule

Federal Newscast

Schedule F: A sword with two edges

Tom Temin Commentary

Disability panel recommends end to program paying less than minimum wage

Hiring/Retention

New executive order could strip civil service protections from ‘wide swaths’ of federal workforce

Workforce

Former top EPA official turned whistleblower is suing the agency for retaliation

Federal Newscast

Certain unconscious bias training is OK for federal contractors, Labor says

Workforce

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden exchange points during the first presidential debate Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)

A federal employee’s guide to Trump and Biden’s 2020 campaign platforms

Management

OPM finalizes new policies intended to more quickly discipline poor performers

New rules from the Office of Personnel Management, which become final next month, formally implement portions of the president’s 2018 executive order on…

Workforce

Soldiers in initial military training at Fort Jackson, S. C., line up to eat, May 11, 2020. (Victoria Evans)

Forthcoming Army plan seeks to ‘transform’ organic industrial base

Billions have been spent to overhaul the Army’s aging weapons plants, but officials say the system needs a fundamental rethinking to make it agile enough…

Army

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2019, file photo, National Nuclear Security Administration administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty talks about her agency's work to reduce global nuclear threats during a business conference in Albuquerque, N.M. Lisa Gordon-Hagerty will visit New Mexico Thursday, July 16, 2020 as part of a nationwide tour of the federal government's nuclear security operations. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

NNSA leader traveling to all sites to get situation report

Workforce

There are 50,000 people working in the Energy Department’s nuclear security enterprise and for obvious reasons, most of them haven’t had the option of teleworking during the pandemic.

House Democrats demand immediate stop to Schedule F executive order

Union, lawmakers attempt to block Schedule F executive order through new lawsuit, legislation

Two Black federal employees, two totally different experiences

Executive order obliterating civil service protections gets an F

Agencies will have some say in what positions will be classified in new schedule

Schedule F: A sword with two edges

Disability panel recommends end to program paying less than minimum wage

New executive order could strip civil service protections from ‘wide swaths’ of federal workforce

Former top EPA official turned whistleblower is suing the agency for retaliation

Certain unconscious bias training is OK for federal contractors, Labor says

A federal employee’s guide to Trump and Biden’s 2020 campaign platforms

OPM finalizes new policies intended to more quickly discipline poor performers

Forthcoming Army plan seeks to ‘transform’ organic industrial base

NNSA leader traveling to all sites to get situation report

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