Workforce Rights/Governance
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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 -
VA Secretary Denis McDonough announced a plan to revamp VA health care facilities by closing and tearing down some, building new ones, establishing outpatient centers and moving more care to the private sector.
March 18, 2022 -
After two years of total vacancy, the Merit Systems Protection Board now has two of its three members, enough to make decisions that stick.
March 17, 2022 -
In a March 16 memo, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks wrote that there will not be a “one-size-fits-all” plan to return to work.
March 17, 2022 -
The Senior Executives Association, which represents the government's highest ranking career officials, is especially glad the Merit Systems Protection Board has a quorum of two members. The Senate confirmed them a couple of weeks ago, ending five years without a quorum.
March 17, 2022 -
Any federal employee who's come near classified or secret information know what happens if they try to publish something or give a speech. The federal government has at least 17 pre-publication review boards with the authority to say no.
March 15, 2022 -
It's bad enough when employees don't show up for work. For the Postal Service, it's a perpetual problem. Managers can plan and budget for vacations, even contingencies like sick days. But what about absent without leave, or AWOL? This turns out to be a prickly management challenge.
March 14, 2022 -
Congress, as it does every year, crammed a lot of spending when it whipped up that so called omnibus appropriations bill.
March 14, 2022 -
Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Anne Milgram is requiring employees to come back to the office at least three days a week starting on March 21.
March 14, 2022 -
Whistleblowers across the government have gotten increasingly more support and protection over the years. Except for those in the secretive intelligence community.
March 11, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a federal court in Florida will hear arguments today on a vaccine mandate case that the Navy says has effectively put one of its guided missile destroyers out of commission.
March 10, 2022