Workforce Rights/Governance
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Employees at the Agriculture Department's National Institute of Food and Agriculture on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to unionize on the heels of USDA's proposed relocation.
June 11, 2019 -
Complaints from employees and applicants are one of the most common measures of prohibited personnel practices, although they do not capture all allegations.
June 11, 2019 -
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers say they're "deeply concerned" by a series of new bargaining proposals from the Department of Veterans Affairs and urged VA to negotiate in good faith with the American Federation of Government Employees.
June 10, 2019 -
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's inspector general found a third of its inspectors will be eligible to retire in 2020.
June 10, 2019 -
The Pentagon said it has begun a 30-day "consultative period" with its labor unions over the conditions of its planned transfer of 1,200 IT workers to the Defense Information Systems Agency.
June 10, 2019 -
According to an MSPB survey, more federal employees say they've witnessed or experienced prohibited personnel practices such as discrimination and whistelblower retaliation in recent years.
June 07, 2019 -
Are labor relations at SSA, VA so bad they'll never get better?
June 07, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, an arbitrator finds the Veterans Affairs Department should take down a public record of employee firings and other punishments from its website.
June 07, 2019 -
The Federal Service Impasses Panel has weighed in another labor-management dispute, rewriting portions of a collective bargaining agreement between the Social Security Administration and the American Federation of Government Employees.
June 05, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, House and Senate lawmakers have taken steps to prevent a White House proposal which would result in about 1,000 layoffs at the U.S. Forest Service.
June 05, 2019 -
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. When the Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general released a report detailing bad conditions at the Washington,…
June 05, 2019 -
An arbitration panel decided mostly against the American Federation of Government Employees in an impasse with Social Security.
June 05, 2019 -
Acknowledging recent decisions may suggest otherwise, the chairman of the Federal Labor Relations Authority said the agency has no "anti-union bias."
June 05, 2019 -
The House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee included a pay raise for civilian employees in its 2020 spending bill.
June 03, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a White House plan to take away some workers rights from civilian Defense employees was denied support from the Senate.
May 30, 2019