Workforce Rights/Governance
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On Tuesday, the Army released its first-ever "People Strategy." Implementation plans are yet to come, but the service is already rethinking its selection process for new commanders.
October 16, 2019 -
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission expanded its online public portal to federal employees in July. The new system brings efficiencies to federal complainants who can now check the status of their case in real time, but it also opens up new opportunities for the EEOC and its employees.
October 14, 2019 -
The Trump administration has clarified how agencies should proceed with current, ongoing collective bargaining negotiations with federal employee union, now that the president's workforce executive orders are in full force.
October 11, 2019 -
The Office of Personnel Management has even more performance management guidance. This time, it's designed to encourage agencies to reconsider the concept of progressive discipline when managing employees.
October 10, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has struck a three year bargaining agreement with the National Treasury Employees Union, which includes paid parental leave.
October 10, 2019 -
A Defense Intelligence Agency official was arrested Wednesday and charged with leaking classified intelligence information to two journalists, including a reporter he was dating.
October 09, 2019 -
It's very likely, especially if you haven’t changed plans in the past few years or are retired, that you are paying more in premiums than necessary.
October 08, 2019 -
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