Workforce Rights/Governance
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Air traffic control is never easy work, but now controllers are concerned about coronavirus, working cheek by jowl in sometimes cramped airport control towers.
April 28, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, House Democrats are eyeing hazard pay for frontline federal employees for the next emergency coronavirus package.
April 27, 2020 -
Your agency has a lot to think about as it considers reopening federal offices during the pandemic. Employees will trust the good leaders to make the right decision, former executives said, but absent leaders will struggle to earn that trust quickly.
April 27, 2020 -
Congress has approved nearly $3 trillion to keep government services and the economy running during the coronavirus pandemic, but standing up the layers of oversight into that spending has gone less smoothly.
April 24, 2020 -
The Association of Administrative Law Judges sued the Federal Service Impasses Panel this week, joining a growing list of union lawsuits that have challenged the panel's constitutionality and authority.
April 22, 2020 -
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service took steps before the coronavirus pandemic to set up one-third of its mediators with video teleconferencing capabilities. Now all 150 FMCS mediators are conducting virtual meetings with employers, agencies and unions.
April 21, 2020 -
It looks as if there is solid commitment on the part of the government to ensure contractor employees, who can't get on premises to do their work, to get paid leave.
April 21, 2020 -
Unless you’ve been a professional hermit for most of your life, the past few weeks have been weird. Mike Causey asked some long-time readers how they are coping.
April 21, 2020 -
It’s been several years since budget challenges caused federal agencies to offer widespread buyouts and early-outs to their workforces, but the Defense Contract Management Agency is finding itself in that position now.
April 20, 2020 -
Customs and Border Protection said it rescinded weather and safety leave schedules for some officers to prepare for a potential influx of migrants at the southern border who might carry the virus. But the National Treasury Employees Union said the decision puts CBP officers at unnecessary risk at time when border traffic is down.
April 17, 2020 -
The stimulus bill was a heavy lift for Congress, now various agencies are working to implement it. For what it looked like at the ground level and some of the federal concerns, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke Virginia Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D).
April 10, 2020 -
The pandemic board will oversee more than $2 trillion in spending, but recent shakeups in its leadership raise longstanding questions about the independence of these watchdogs.
April 09, 2020 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs flatly disputed claims the American Federation of Government Employees made in an unsafe work complaint to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
April 08, 2020 -
The Office of Personnel Management has given the Department of Veterans Affairs authority to rehire retired federal medical professionals.
April 08, 2020 -
Federal employees must simply prove they received differential treatment due to their age during the personnel decision-making process, the Supreme Court said Monday. They do not need to prove age discrimination as the sole reason for a firing, demotion or other personnel action.
April 07, 2020