Workforce Rights/Governance
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In today's Federal Newscast, federal employees who were exposed to COVID-19 while working can now join a class-action lawsuit.
March 04, 2022 -
The newly seated board has a backlog of cases, but also some aids to help them get through it.
March 04, 2022 -
Federal employees looking to appeal an adverse personnel action might not have to wait on the Merit Systems Protection Board much longer. The Senate ends a five-year streak in which the board lacked a quorum.
March 03, 2022 -
President Joe Biden is calling for more federal employees to return to the office, saying “significant progress” made fighting the COVID-19 pandemic has made it safer to do so.
March 01, 2022 -
If you like going after companies that cheat their employees on wages, this might be the job for you. The Labor Department wants to hire one hundred investigators in its wage and hour division.
March 01, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force has new guidance for masking and COVID testing for federal agencies.
March 01, 2022 -
A federal appeals court finds the Postal Service isn't meeting legal requirements to ensure managers and supervisors are paid close to what they could make in the private sector.
February 28, 2022 -
Last year the government agencies paid whistleblowers $237 million for exposing waste and fraud. It was the lowest yearly total since 2008.
February 25, 2022 -
The American Federation of Government Employees is at odds with TSA Administrator David Pekoske over what the union says is an unnecessary delay in expanding collective bargaining for the approximately 50,000 airport screeners who work for TSA.
February 24, 2022 -
Federal prison employees say they're being bullied and threatened for raising concerns about serious misconduct and claim it's indicative of widespread problems in the Bureau of Prisons
February 24, 2022 -
Next month, nearly a year and a half into the Biden administration, Department of Veterans Affairs officials will re-open talks with their union workforce.
February 23, 2022 -
Attorney Robert Capovilla says discharging service members who refused COVID vaccines has legal and military flaws.
February 22, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, five unions say VA should immediately develop a joint COVID-19 training task force to design education courses for employees.
February 22, 2022 -
The IRS, SSA, State Department and other agencies face backlogs around citizen services, but returning to the office is not the best solution as some lawmakers believe.
February 21, 2022 -
The Justice Department has laid out its plans to have employees return to their offices. It stresses maximum telework. But one group says actual telework policies are all over the place, depending on which office you work in.
February 17, 2022