Workforce Rights/Governance
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Billions have been spent to overhaul the Army's aging weapons plants, but officials say the system needs a fundamental rethinking to make it agile enough to keep up with military requirements.
October 14, 2020 -
There are 50,000 people working in the Energy Department's nuclear security enterprise and for obvious reasons, most of them haven't had the option of teleworking during the pandemic.
October 12, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, 11 industry associations are calling on the Trump administration to rescind the executive order on diversity and training.
October 12, 2020 -
The Federal Labor Relations Authority issued three recent decisions on behalf of three separate departments, all of which will likely give agencies more power at the collective bargaining table.
October 06, 2020 -
The controversial White House directive banning what the Trump administration thinks is divisive diversity training - it applies to federal contractors, too.
October 06, 2020 -
Federal D&I training needs a more methodical examination for fairness and effectiveness.
October 06, 2020 -
Many agencies were already envisioning a performance management shift before the pandemic, but the virtual workplace is accelerating broader changes to the way managers set organizational goals and hold their employees accountable.
September 29, 2020 -
While the nation argues about racial discrimination, another group continues to suffer the slings and arrows of unequal treatment. Namely, pregnant women in the military.
September 29, 2020 -
It'll be up to political appointees to determine whether agency diversity and inclusion training runs afoul of the president's recent executive order on "divisive" race and gender stereotyping -- and whether federal employees should be disciplined for promoting it.
September 28, 2020 -
While it has been an unimaginable tragedy for many people, for many of us, including feds, it has been survivable so far.
September 24, 2020 -
President Donald Trump has issued an order that he said will expand a ban on the use of federal money for certain diversity training
September 22, 2020 -
Few White House memos have sparked as much debate as the one telling agencies to stop presenting certain forms of training related to racial diversity and inclusion.
September 22, 2020 -
The White House says a new agency-level appeals process for clearance denials could expose classified information, increase processing time.
September 21, 2020 -
President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Personnel Management is accused of 'lacking commitment to federal merit system," one of D.C.'s industry experts is leaving his high-profile post, and a congressional committee is launching an investigation into recent tragedies at Ft. Hood.
September 09, 2020 -
Two days after a federal judge ordered the U.S. Census Bureau to stop temporarily winding down operations for the 2020 census, the statistical agency says it's refraining from laying off some census takers and it's restoring some quality-control steps
September 08, 2020