Elijah Cummings

Congress will let federal employees carry over more annual leave into 2021

The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act will allow federal employees to carry over more vacation time into next year. It also corrects past legislative…

Benefits

Annual leave carryover, new anti-discrimination safeguards for feds in House NDAA

Congress

Army Command Sgt. Maj. John W. Troxell, Senior Enlisted Advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Retired U.S. Army Master Sgt. Leroy A. Petry, Medal of Honor Recipient, pose with service members after an Association of the United States Army breakfast for the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh regions in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16, 2019. Troxell stressed the importance of a fit and lethal force to combat growing threats around the globe. (DoD Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. James K. McCann)

Government answers FAQs about feds attending conferences

Federal Newscast

Cummings remembered as ‘true champion’ for federal workforce

Congress

Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., gives opening remarks before the House Oversight Committee hearing on family separation and detention centers, Friday, July 12, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Cummings, powerful congressman leading Trump probe, has died

People

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Patrick Osino

Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert B. Neller addresses Marines and Sailors assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa, during a ceremony at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy, Dec. 25, 2017. Neller and Sgt. Maj. Ronald L. Green, sergeant major of the Marine Corps stopped by NAS Sigonella to spend time with SPMAGTF-CR-AF service members during the holidays. SPMAGTF-CR-AF is deployed to conduct crisis-response and theater-security operations in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Patrick Osino) www.dvids.hub.net

GAO says some Marine commands spent too much or too little on civilian employees

Federal Newscast

FBI to access social media data in search of bad guys

Federal Newscast

Proposed law would empower FTC to end addictive practices in social media

Federal Newscast

OPM IT outage sparks Trump administration’s efforts to again make case for GSA merger

OPM Reorganization

Justice Dept. inspector general to probe FBI headquarters decision

Facilities/Construction

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2013 file photo, the Social Security Administration's main campus is seen in Woodlawn, Md. A significant worsening in the financial condition of Social Security and Medicare and bitter political divisions among lawmakers who'd have try to find solutions have raised the level of concern around the government's latest status report on the two bedrock programs. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Negotiations between Social Security and administrative law judges’ union break down

Federal Newscast

U.S. troops gather on the USS Wasp where U.S. President Donald Trump will deliver Memorial Day remarks to the troops, at the U.S. Military Base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, Tuesday, May 28, 2019.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Senate passes NDAA, includes pay raise for troops

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Senate passes its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a 3.1% pay raise for active duty military.

Federal Newscast

Glenn Fine, inspector general, Defense Department

TransDigm agrees to reimburse Pentagon following allegations of price gouging

The company previously indicated an unwillingness to issue the refunds, saying that doing so could amount to an admission of wrongdoing.

Defense

The U.S. Capitol dome is seen past the base of the Washington Monument just before sunrise in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers faced a partial government shutdown early Saturday after Democrats refused to meet President Donald Trump's demands for $5 billion to start erecting a border wall with Mexico. Overall, more than 800,000 federal employees would see their jobs disrupted, including more than half who would be forced to continue working without pay. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Workforce roundup: New religious time off authority, a short-term fix for MSPB

Workforce

Federal employees have a new flexibility to earn time off for religious reasons, while Congress considers a partial solution to resolve a shortcoming at the member-less Merit Systems Protection Board.