employee accountability

FILE - A sign requiring masks as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus is posted on a store front in Philadelphia, on Feb. 16, 2022. The Biden administration will significantly loosen federal mask-wearing guidelines to protect against COVID-19 transmission on Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

New COVID guidance for federal agencies to match CDC recommendations

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force has new guidance for masking and COVID testing for federal agencies.

Federal Newscast

OPM finalizes new policies intended to more quickly discipline poor performers

Workforce

2020 budget takes aim at federal employee discipline, collective bargaining

Workforce

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One year in, VA employees still approach accountability office with caution

Veterans Affairs

OPM tells agencies with expired union contracts to start moving on EO implementation

Legal challenges mount against Trump’s workforce executive orders, as 13 unions file joint lawsuit

Unions

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron during the G-7 summit, Friday, June 8, 2018, in Charlevoix, Canada. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

21 House Republicans ask Trump to rescind workforce executive orders

Workforce

OMB: ‘We value the workforce that we have’

Workforce

What changes (and doesn’t) under Trump’s new employee removal executive order

Hiring/Retention

Trump administration outlines roadmap to modernizing federal workforce

Workforce

Why agencies’ firing problems are also their hiring problems

House bills would extend same VA removal authorities to Labor, Education secretaries

Two members of Congress have introduced separate bills that would extend expedited disciplinary and removal procedures to employees and senior executives…

Congress

The Capitol is seen on the first day of a government shutdown after a divided Senate rejected a funding measure, in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

5 federal accountability bills that failed in Congress

President Donald Trump wants the VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act, which he signed into law last summer, to serve as a model for other…

Workforce

Bill to limit appeals, make new hires ‘at-will’ federal employees reappears in the House

Rep. Todd Rokita (R-Ind.) reintroduced the Promote Accountability and Government Efficiency (PAGE) Act after a similar bill died in the previous Congress. The legislation would give agencies the authority to remove or suspend new employees “without notice or right to appeal, from service by the head of the agency at which such employee is employed for good cause, bad cause or no cause at all.”