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The Department of Veterans Affairs said it's administered first doses to approximately 9,000 additional employees since it announced its vaccine mandate for health care workers last month.
President Biden has formally recommended a 2.7% federal pay raise for most civilian employees in 2022, which includes 0.5% locality pay adjustment.
President Biden announced his plans to nominate 10 new members to the Federal Service Impasses Panel, which attempts to resolve collective bargaining disputes among agencies and employee unions.
In today's Federal Newscast, federal employee unions are responding to President Biden's new vaccine guidance.
The underlying lawsuit against AFGE and former president J. David Cox remains active in federal court, but the judge dismissed all but four of the 11 counts the plaintiffs lodged last summer.
The Department of Health and Human Services is the latest agency to announce a reset in labor relations with its union, following a Biden administration executive order that restored collective bargaining and official time.
The new vaccine requirements apply to all federal employees and onsite contractors, the Biden administration said Thursday.
The Department of Veterans Affairs will reimburse American Federation of Government Employees representatives for any leave they took over the last three years to handle union duties in the absence of official time.
In an email to Social Security Administration employees Friday afternoon, Kilolo Kijakazi, a Biden appointee, said the president had made a decision to change agency leadership, naming her as the acting SSA commissioner.
The State Department makes a big policy change to passports. All federal fighters will likely make no less than $15 dollars an hour. And Guantanamo Bay is on the chopping block — again.
Veterans Affairs must reinstate certain employees who were fired, demoted or suspended without a chance to improve their performance, according to a decision which the Federal Labor Relations Authority upheld for a second time last week.
House Democrats argue the pandemic has shown the need for paid family and medical leave, but Republicans say the benefits federal employees have are already too generous.
In today's Federal Newscast, top House Republicans want to know why the administration granted ethics waivers to two political appointees at the Office of Personnel Management and Office of Management and Budget.
The Biden administration on Thursday lifted the cap on the number of federal employees who can work in the office, but agencies must first submit and finalize reentry plans, update COVID-19 safety protocols, meet union obligations and give the workforce enough advanced notice.