Department of Veterans Affairs
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In today's Federal Newscast: The OPM Director has a warning about not offering telework to federal employees. The House passes a bill to fund IRS customer service. And the Coast Guard is modifying its medical requirements.
July 22, 2022 -
The House version of the fiscal 2023 spending package that passed Wednesday includes an amendment that defunds the VA’s Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission.
July 21, 2022 -
Federal employees, no less than people in other occupations, sometimes have to deal with pain resulting from injuries. In recent years, many of them have become addicted to opioids. Thanks to the work of my next guest, over the past five years the number of federal employees using opioids has dropped by 58%. For his work, he's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program. Antonio Rios, the division director of Federal Employees', Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation at the Department of Labor, talked with Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
July 21, 2022 -
Employee engagement and satisfaction dropped by 4.5 points in the Partnership for Public Service’s 2021 “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government” rankings.
July 13, 2022 -
The Veterans Health Administration is seeing severe staffing shortages back on the rise, after years of making progress on this front.
July 07, 2022 -
Current policy lets feds use sick leave to travel for medical care, but some employer groups want the White House to go further.
June 30, 2022 -
June is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month. And according to our next guest managing the risk factors stemming from military-connected PTSD, it isn't just a job for the defense department or the V.A. Sometimes, it takes a village
June 24, 2022 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs, Congress and the vendors behind the VA's new Electronic Health Record are renewing their scrutiny of the EHR rollout.
June 23, 2022 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs hired thousands of health care employees through a streamlined hiring process since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now it's calling on Congress to make some of these hiring flexibilities permanent.
May 04, 2022 -
At first blush, it might seem like agency chief data officers would be hampered by the move to a “zero trust” cybersecurity posture.
April 21, 2022 -
If the government wants to be a competitive employer in the 21st century, leaders must stop ignoring the importance of human connection and relationships at work.
April 20, 2022 -
Terry Adirim, executive director of the Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office, told reporters in a call Thursday that the cause was a bug in an Oracle server, but said an investigation is still ongoing.
April 08, 2022 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs, faced with thousands of job vacancies and a high rate of turnover among its health care workforce, is calling on Congress to set higher pay caps for more occupations, and permanently ease onboarding requirements.
March 18, 2022 -
Veterans Affairs and the American Federation of Government Employees more than spar over the recommendations for realigning VA people and facilities
March 18, 2022 -
The IG reports found the rollout of the new EHR sometimes failed to indicate to providers that patients were flagged as being at high risk of suicide and gave VA providers an incomplete picture of a patients' health care data.
March 17, 2022