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Instead of closing new Grand Junction headquarters, BLM will now have two headquarters.
Vacancies jumped from 121 open positions in July 2019, when the Bureau of Land Management first announced the relocation, to 326 in March 2020, a 169% increase, according to the Government Accountability Office.
As a way to "minimize disruptions," the Bureau of Land Management will not require employees, with the exception of a few core senior leaders, to move to Washington, D.C., the Interior Department said.
The Biden administration recently announced a series of steps it would take to improve pay and expand capacity for federal firefighters, but a federal union worries they're not nearly not enough to support intensifying fire seasons that grow longer each year.
Relocations in the federal government have received a bit of a bad rap lately, and a recent survey and research shows agencies often struggle to track the costs and tie the moves to the professional development needs of their talent.
Civilian agencies that saw their workforces decline or, in some cases, relocate, could experience hiring sprees if the Biden administration gets its way with its 2022 budget request.
In today's Federal Newscast, the General Services Administration has a goal using renewable electricity for the entire federal real estate portfolio by 2025
In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office says not all agencies have been tracking time and attendance fraud consistently.
The Interior Department's inspector general said agency officials gave mostly accurate statements to Congress about its reasons for relocating employees at the Bureau of Land Management. But Interior officials did mislead Congress about lease costs being the primary reason for the move.
In today's Federal Newscast, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee is calling for another delay to employee furloughs at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
In today's Federal Newscast, an AFGE conducted survey of VA members finds nearly 1,000 employees say racism has made their jobs more difficult.
In today's Federal Newscast, contractors need to meet a provision in the 2019 Defense authorization bill to not use equipment from Huawei and ZTE.
For more, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the director of GAO's Natural Resources and Environment team, Anne-Marie Fennell.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office says Interior never gave detailed reasons for relocating specific Bureau of Land Management headquarters positions to Colorado or other western states.