Workforce Rights/Governance
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In today's Federal Newscast, a federal judge in Texas has blocked the Navy from enforcing its COVID vaccine mandate against nearly 4,000 sailors who’d filed religious exemptions.
March 31, 2022 -
The departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development, at the Biden administration's urging, are planning to bring tens of thousands of federal employees back to the office starting April 25.
March 30, 2022 -
The 2023 White House budget request includes more funding for diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility initiatives at the Office of Personnel Management.
March 30, 2022 -
The Biden is asking Congress to bring TSA employees pay and benefits in line with much of the rest of the federal workforce.
March 29, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a bi-partisan group of Senators are taking aim at organizational conflicts of interest among federal contractors.
March 29, 2022 -
Executive Order 14068 directs OPM to issue a proposed rule on using salary history in the hiring and pay-setting processes for federal employees.
March 28, 2022 -
The Supreme Court is giving the Navy a freer hand determining what job assignments it gives to 35 sailors who sued after refusing on religious grounds to comply with an order to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
March 25, 2022 -
A large survey sponsored by Slack, a intra-company messaging application, raises the question: Is it really a good goal for organizations to get everyone back in the office? And a second question: Would companies and government agencies do better to educate managers on how to better deal with a workforce that's scattered -- some home, some in the office?
March 25, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: Federal agency CIOs are finalizing plans to create and fund a zero-trust architecture. A former head of the TSA has died. And you can now sport ombre nails while in a Marine Corps uniform.
March 25, 2022 -
The National Treasury Employees Union confirmed Thursday that the IRS plans to bring bargaining unit employees back to the office in two phases, one on May 8, the other on June 25.
March 25, 2022 -
House Republican lawmakers are concerned that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s lagging re-entry plans will delay results on discrimination charges.
March 24, 2022 -
Despite the scattered arrangement of State Department employees around the world, going to a remote and hybrid work environment during the pandemic was less challenging than IT officials expected.
March 22, 2022 -
Security clearances, how to get them what you can do with them is an ever-changing topic. And the last couple of years have brought quite a few changes, especially since the machinery moved from the Office of Personnel Management to the Defense Department.
March 22, 2022 -
The Environmental Protection Agency is the latest agency planning on bringing its workforce back to the office on a phased basis starting in May.
March 21, 2022 -
Earlier wake up times are in your future if you are a fed who has to commute to the office after the Biden administration announced that federal employees would do so starting in April.
March 21, 2022