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Omnibus endorses 1% federal pay raise, gives feds more time to repay deferred payroll taxes

A provision in the 2021 omnibus spending package gives federal employees a full 12 months to repay the payroll taxes that have been deferred from their…

Pay & Benefits

Lawmakers ask for GAO’s help to identify ‘burrowing’ over last 4 years

Agency Oversight

What’s left on the end-of-year to-do list? Just about everything!

Federal Report

Senate appropriators propose federal pay freeze for civilian employees in 2021

Pay

All eyes on the Senate, will any other work get done?

Congress

Industry pushes back against WH order on diversity and inclusion training

Federal Newscast

A bill to make the payroll tax deferral optional, and others worth watching

Congress

Lawmakers again want a payroll tax deferral opt-out for feds after ‘chaotic’ rollout

Pay

What they’re saying about the payroll tax deferral

Federal Report

Payroll tax deferral will kick in for military, civilian feds next week

Pay

USCIS cancels impending employee furloughs days ahead of deadline

Workforce

In this Aug. 13, 2019, photo, Dr. Jasmine Saavedra, left, a pediatrician at Esperanza Health Centers in Chicago, hands newborn Alondra Marquez to her mother, Esthela Nuñez, right, after examination. Doctors and public health experts warn of poor health outcomes and rising costs they say will come from sweeping changes that would deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, as well as food stamps and other forms of public assistance. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky)

OPM sheds more light on new paid parental leave for feds

In today’s Federal Newscast, federal employees are learning a little more about the paid parental leave program.

Federal Newscast

FILE- In this July 8, 2020 file photo, Eric Antosh has a nasal swab taken by a nurse at a COVID-19 testing site in the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York broke a COVID-19 testing record Friday, July 31, 2020, by conducting 82,737 tests, the highest number ever conducted in a single day in the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Saturday in a written statement. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Lawmakers hope to secure more funding for NIH’s coronavirus efforts

In today’s Federal Newscast, a bipartisan group of senators is pushing for more funding for the National Institutes of Health.

Federal Newscast

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Senators join industry groups asking for extension of contractor pay provision

Congress

Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), along with Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), asked Senate leadership to include a provision in the next stimulus bill to extend Section 3610 provisions that provide paid leave, including sick leave, to employees and subcontractors until Dec. 31, 2021.

Omnibus endorses 1% federal pay raise, gives feds more time to repay deferred payroll taxes

Lawmakers ask for GAO’s help to identify ‘burrowing’ over last 4 years

What’s left on the end-of-year to-do list? Just about everything!

Senate appropriators propose federal pay freeze for civilian employees in 2021

All eyes on the Senate, will any other work get done?

Industry pushes back against WH order on diversity and inclusion training

A bill to make the payroll tax deferral optional, and others worth watching

Lawmakers again want a payroll tax deferral opt-out for feds after ‘chaotic’ rollout

What they’re saying about the payroll tax deferral

Payroll tax deferral will kick in for military, civilian feds next week

USCIS cancels impending employee furloughs days ahead of deadline

OPM sheds more light on new paid parental leave for feds

Lawmakers hope to secure more funding for NIH’s coronavirus efforts

Senators join industry groups asking for extension of contractor pay provision

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