Department of Veterans Affairs
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The VA would receive additional pay flexibilities for its health care workforce, if a sweeping legislative makes it through Congress.
May 14, 2024 -
A watchdog report finds breakdowns in communications — and leadership — led to the VA paying nearly $11 million in bonuses to ineligible career executives.
May 10, 2024 -
Tony Boese, the research programs manager and associate researcher in VA’s NAII, said the new workforce education platform reduces the need for retraining.
May 06, 2024 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeing signs that some of its newer special pay authorities are leading to improvements in workforce retention.
April 25, 2024 -
VA’s chief veterans experience officer explains how the department reaches out to service members transitioning back to civilian life.
April 24, 2024 -
Cognosante, a provider of digital transformation and cloud modernization services, won more than $300M in federal contracts the last two years.
April 16, 2024 -
For the first time ever, a new bargaining agreement between DHA and AFGE outlines cohesive policies on leave, work hours, official time, telework and much more.
April 12, 2024 -
VA positions under review include a mix of white-collar General Schedule (GS) and blue-collar Wage Grade (WG) positions.
April 09, 2024 -
A recent Gallup study of more than 5,400 survey respondents finds 26% of federal employees say they “very often” or “always” feel burned out at work.
April 03, 2024 -
Top officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs say its latest rollout of a new Electronic Health Record is the most successful go-live to date.
March 29, 2024 -
The VA announced Tuesday it saw 25,000 more patients between October 2023 and February 2024, compared to the same period in fiscal 2023.
March 26, 2024 -
VA is delivering more benefits to more veterans than at any point in its history and taking steps to ensure its benefits workforce can keep up with the pace.
March 21, 2024 -
After decades of annual pay caps, wages for blue-collar feds in 75% of Federal Wage System localities no longer align with "prevailing" local rates.
March 15, 2024 -
The Veterans Health Administration says the workforce reduction is necessary, because the agency far exceeded its hiring goals last year and improved retention.
March 14, 2024 -
With the health and well being of veterans at stake, and the large volume of their data on hand, the VA puts the highest level of importance on security.
March 12, 2024