Workforce Rights/Governance
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If remote working, remote hiring, remote on-boarding are all here to stay, could virtual reality be far behind. That's what people at Accenture are trying to find out.
May 09, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the House of Representatives is trying to recruit more diverse and high-quality candidates, and get them to stay there.
May 09, 2022 -
The new policy is aimed at ensuring FEMA employees are properly categorized under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
May 06, 2022 -
It's expected to take "months" for the Class Action Implementation Group to gather enough information to determine who is eligible to receive payments.
May 03, 2022 -
While acceptable attire will obviously vary on the agency and the position, there’s some anecdotal evidence that some feds are getting flexibility with their workplace dress codes.
May 02, 2022 -
Everyone feels overwhelmed or disconnected from time to time. Burnout happens when these feelings don't abate.
April 28, 2022 -
Perhaps on purpose, but the administration has offered only vague guidance on when or if or which federal employees must return to their offices.
April 28, 2022 -
A government-wide effort to help formerly incarcerated individuals readjust to the workforce includes agency training sessions, interviewing tips from the Office of Personnel Management.
April 27, 2022 -
Federal leave and time off policies can get mighty complicated. At the IRS, both managers and line employees have had trouble sticking to procedures for family and medical leave act leave.
April 26, 2022 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs is moving ahead with disciplinary action against health care employees who haven’t complied with COVID-19 workplace requirements.
April 25, 2022 -
If you work at the Department of Homeland Security, you received an email from the big boss on April 14 that you don’t want to leave unread.
April 25, 2022 -
The new Army directive brings together a group of decentralized policies and adds six new ones for soldiers.
April 21, 2022 -
Not since the Civil Rights Movement have we seen such a large concentration of executive branch directives around diversity, equity and inclusion issued at once, from the broad to the incredibly specific.
April 18, 2022 -
OPM issued a second round of guidance to agencies, outlining several ways agencies should make federal employees more aware of their collective bargaining rights.
April 12, 2022 -
As people return to the office, the IRS may be a good bellwether.
April 11, 2022