Workforce Rights/Governance
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Title 38 health care workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs will have eight weeks to get fully vaccinated, per a new mandate from the agency.
July 26, 2021 -
Lawmakers want leadership to address problems at the VA's law enforcement arm, including high officer turnover and gaps in tracking use-of-force incidents
July 20, 2021 -
A Government Accountability Office review found the legal training commanders rely on is delivered inconsistently, and poorly tracked by military departments.
July 12, 2021 -
Federal Drive with Tom Temin got the latest congressional outlook from WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller.
July 06, 2021 -
Veterans Affairs must reinstate certain employees who were fired, demoted or suspended without a chance to improve their performance, according to a decision which the Federal Labor Relations Authority upheld for a second time last week.
June 30, 2021 -
The House Oversight and Reform Committee on Tuesday advanced two bills aimed, in part, at addressing the impacts of the four-year lack of quorum at the Merit Systems Protection Board.
June 29, 2021 -
Jeff Neal takes a look at the arguments for at-will federal employees, why they are wrong, and the logical consequences of giving the far-right advocates of at-will employment what they want.
June 29, 2021 -
The executive order, which President Joe Biden signed Friday, addresses everything from unpaid federal internships and pay equity for members of underserved communities to diversity and inclusion training and gender-neutral pronouns.
June 28, 2021 -
President Joe Biden has nominated Raymond Limon, chief human capital officer at the Interior Department, and federal employment attorney Cathy Harris to fill vacant seats at the Merit Systems Protection Board.
June 24, 2021 -
A new study finds that female soldiers at Army bases in Texas, Colorado, Kansas and Kentucky face a greater risk of sexual assault and harassment than those at other posts, accounting for more than a third of all active duty Army women sexually assaulted in 2018
June 18, 2021 -
President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act this afternoon, establishing June 19 as a federal holiday. Most federal employees will have June 18 off for observance as June 19 falls on a Saturday this year.
June 17, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, two of the top Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee say the administration's reopening plans for federal employees are unacceptable.
June 15, 2021 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs also envisions additional funding for its electronic health record modernization program, accountability office and diversity and inclusion initiatives, according to its 2022 budget request.
June 08, 2021 -
Government, like the private sector, is likely to see a variety of practices that are dependent on agency mission, type of work, and agency culture
June 07, 2021 -
Many employees want to return to their offices not because they're so great, but because they want to renew human connections weakened over the past year.
June 04, 2021