Workforce Rights/Governance
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A task force established by the Biden administration has issued dozens of recommendations for unionizing federal agencies and contractors. Will it have any effect?
March 09, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Veterans Affairs Department's largest employees union is raising hackles over a plan to trim back VA facilities.
March 09, 2022 -
The Department of Homeland Security said it used cloud technologies and the security tools to maximize the capability of teleworkers and field workers even before the pandemic.
March 08, 2022 -
The largest federal union has filed a class action lawsuit for employees who think they were exposed to COVID-19 at work. There's even a web site where people can sign on.
March 07, 2022 -
Discussion about the federal workforce rarely go three minutes, before someone laments the need to get young people into government. Yet three quarters of the federal workforce is over 40, a much higher percentage than in the private sector. So it may be no surprise that age discrimination complaints in government are more common than in the private sector.
March 04, 2022 -
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