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Debra D'Agostino, founding partner of The Federal Practice Group, joins host Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access to discuss whistle blower protections for federal employees, and how to navigate the security clearance process in the federal government.
This week on Your Turn, Federal News Radio reporter Nicole Ogrysko will discuss the past, present and future of the federal civil service, and Federal News Radio Senior Digital Editor Michael O'Connell will explain how podcasts could help you get ahead in your federal career. August 22, 2018
In today's Federal Newscast, a new report from the Veterans Affairs Department's inspector general finds VBA improperly processed and denied some 1,300 military sexual trauma claims in 2017.
A third-party arbitrator has ruled that unionized postal employees may continue to take unpaid leave to campaign for political candidates, but the Postal Service says it plans on challenging the ruling.
Forty years after the civil service was officially “reformed” by the Carter administration, a new team with very different ideas about the role of government and regulations is looking to do some reforming of its own.
A recent decision from Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie adds more complexity to collective bargaining procedures for certain VA employees.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie says he'll review some personnel moves and major agency actions himself, as 16 senators urge the new secretary to review a series of actions from prior VA leadership that have impacted career employees and executives.
People who say it is next to impossible to fire a federal worker should study — and then maybe rejoice in — the Hatch Act, a much-amended 1940s law designed to keep career federal and postal workers from engaging in partisan political activity on the job.
After most Homeland Security Department nondisclosure agreements were deemed noncompliant with federal whistleblower laws, congressional overseers worry about other agencies.
The president's recent executive orders are accelerating messy and heated collective bargaining negotiations between the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) and National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU).
Local American Federation of Government Employees representatives at the Veterans Affairs Department say the agency has inconsistently implemented the president's executive order on official time.
Federal security clearances may grab headlines, but the polygraph portion has gone virtually unchanged for decades. Now they're getting a closer look.
Jeff Neal offers some ideas for spending left-over budget money in a way that may benefit the taxpayers and the government workers who serve them.
Michael Horowitz, inspector general at the Justice Department, said 22 percent of all women and 43 percent of female criminal investigators reported experiencing gender-based discrimination in the department.