Workforce Rights/Governance
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After determining the Department of Health and Human Services bargained in "bad faith" with the National Treasury Employees Union, an independent arbitrator has directed both parties to return to the collective bargaining table. HHS, however, can appeal the arbitrator's decision.
October 07, 2019 -
The Office of Personnel Management on Friday instructed agencies to begin implementing the president's workforce executive orders on official time, collective bargaining and employee removals.
October 04, 2019 -
A quiet update for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation shows how reorgs can work without flamethrowing.
October 04, 2019 -
A new collective bargaining agreement between the Social Security Administration and the American Federation of Government Employees gives the union a smaller bank of official time hours than it had before, but more than representatives would see under the president's workforce executive orders.
October 03, 2019 -
The injunction on the president's workforce executive orders has expired, clearing the way for agencies to officially begin implementing them again.
October 02, 2019 -
Executive orders on federal employment, and vigorous union opposition to them, appear to have poisoned relations between federal unions and the Trump administration beyond antidote.
October 02, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, 50,000 federal employees will get a chance to sound off about their benefits this fall in the Office of Personnel Management's Federal Employee Benefits survey.
October 01, 2019 -
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) is hopeful to secure a 3.1% raise during the conference on appropriations, and that Congress will pass a full budget before the CR expires.
October 01, 2019 -
The reason for the new shutdown decision deadline is that lawmakers have not approved appropriations to keep all federal agencies operating after Oct. 1.
October 01, 2019 -
The Senate has confirmed Eugene Scalia, son for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to serve as the next Secretary of Labor.
September 27, 2019 -
Stress is real, and it can be a killer. Federal workers are not immune to job-related stress, and many occupy jobs that cause high levels of stress. So several agencies have employee assistance programs.
September 26, 2019 -
Under the latest guidance from the Office of Personnel Management, agencies have new deadlines now to review and then streamline their existing performance management and disciplinary procedures for federal employees.
September 25, 2019 -
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Wednesday denied unions a chance to rehear their case against the president's workforce executive orders before a full panel of judges.
September 25, 2019 -
Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro said the proposal would keep the U.S. in the organization that it helped found.
September 25, 2019 -
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs' Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has counted up the costs of the last three shutdowns.
September 20, 2019