Covid-19
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Bureau of Prisons and corrections officers don't quite see eye-to-eye.
May 15, 2020 -
Katie Sullivan, the principal deputy assistant attorney general of the Office of Justice Programs, said her time as a state trial judge and deputy district attorney in Colorado is influencing her goals in leading the Office of Justice Programs at the Justice Department.
May 14, 2020 -
Not many people would trade jobs with those who have to keep watch over inmates in federal prisons. Now that job has become even more dangerous.
May 14, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, patient capacity at Veterans Affairs medical facilities is up within the last month.
May 14, 2020 -
Public Technology Institute's Alan Shark described the coronavirus pandemic's impact on local governments operations, challenges and success stories.
May 14, 2020 -
Although looking back on the first couple of months of 2020 might seem like the Good Old Days, benefits expert Tammy Flanagan said, “It was already destined to be pretty rocky” being an election year and all. But, then, of course, came the coronavirus pandemic.
May 14, 2020 -
For obvious reasons, nobody has a handle on where cost of living adjustments or health care costs/insurance premiums will end up.
May 14, 2020 -
The coronavirus pandemic has posed new questions for agencies whose employees are working on the frontlines and teleworking from home, the Office of Government Ethics said.
May 13, 2020 -
The Air Force adapted its survival training to COVID-19 and it likes the results.
May 13, 2020 -
One of the more somber and unpleasant jobs performed by the National Guard is to properly handle the bodies of people who died from COVID-19.
May 13, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the State Department offers grant funding for organizations with ideas on stopping corruption connected to the pandemic.
May 13, 2020 -
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May 13, 2020 -
Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset cost millions of federal and public employees even more millions in dollars of benefits.
May 13, 2020 -
Under the Heroes Act, the $3 trillion coronavirus relief package House Democrats unveiled Tuesday, eligible federal employees would keep teleworking through the end of the year, while those working on the frontlines of the government's pandemic response could receive up to $10,000 in additional premium pay.
May 12, 2020 -
The coronavirus pandemic multiplied the need for agency wide telework capabilities and that also means more security concerns. Venice Goodwine, chief information security officer for the Agriculture Department, said her agency took a phased approach with capacity tests across different mission areas.
May 12, 2020