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Agencies cut official time by 28% in 2019, per latest OPM data

Agencies reported a 28% drop in official time usage across government in 2019, according to a new report from the Office of Personnel Management.

Unions

IG: EPA isn’t checking if funding recipients are following civil rights policies

Agency Oversight

Former top EPA official turned whistleblower is suing the agency for retaliation

Federal Newscast

Legislators hope to secure higher COLA for federal retirees

Federal Newscast

EPA helping local communities restore the Chesapeake Bay

People

EPA employees fear phase three reopening, declare ‘no confidence’ in agency safety efforts

Workforce

OPM looks to change when it owes back-pay from personnel disputes

Federal Newscast

Agencies are rethinking performance management in the pandemic era too

Workforce

EPA takes another step to fulfill transparency EO

Federal Newscast

Cadet candidate Daphne Karahalios, of Chicago, has her temperature taken as she arrives at the U.S. Military Academy, Monday, July 13, 2020, in West Point, N.Y. The Army is welcoming more than 1,200 candidates from every state. Candidates will be COVID-19 tested immediately upon arrival, wear masks, and practice social distancing. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Defense Department opens five medical facilities for coronavirus vaccine trials

Federal Newscast

FILE - This Sept. 18, 2019, file photo shows the view of the U.S. Capitol building from the Washington Monument in Washington. The federal government incurred the biggest monthly budget deficit in history in June 2020 as spending on programs to combat the coronavirus recession exploded while millions of job losses cut into tax revenues. The Treasury Department reported Monday, July 13, 2020 that the deficit hit $864 billion last month, an amount of red ink that surpasses most annual deficits in the nation’s history and is above the previous monthly deficit record of $738 billion in April.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Agencies achieving frictionless acquisition in variety of ways

Acquisition

Even after signing a new contract, EPA and AFGE are still at odds over telework

Under a new collective bargaining agreement, eligible employees at the EPA can telework up to two days a week. But the agency suggested employees could…

Workforce

A Huawei sign is displayed on their premises in Reading, England, Tuesday, July 14, 2020. Britain's government on Tuesday backtracked on plans to give Chinese telecommunications company Huawei a limited role in the U.K.'s new high-speed mobile phone network in a decision with broad implications for relations between London and Beijing. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

ODNI allowing agencies to delay implementing new Chinese equipment ban

In today’s Federal Newscast, federal contractors and contracting officers apparently have some relief from the Section 889 rule that has the federal IT…

Federal Newscast

Researcher and chemical engineer in EPA's office of research and development, Shawn Ryan

EPA working to learn about protecting trains from coronavirus

People

The Environmental Protection Agency is running a program to test chemicals that can clean surfaces and keep them clean.

Agencies cut official time by 28% in 2019, per latest OPM data

IG: EPA isn’t checking if funding recipients are following civil rights policies

Former top EPA official turned whistleblower is suing the agency for retaliation

Legislators hope to secure higher COLA for federal retirees

EPA helping local communities restore the Chesapeake Bay

EPA employees fear phase three reopening, declare ‘no confidence’ in agency safety efforts

OPM looks to change when it owes back-pay from personnel disputes

Agencies are rethinking performance management in the pandemic era too

EPA takes another step to fulfill transparency EO

Defense Department opens five medical facilities for coronavirus vaccine trials

Agencies achieving frictionless acquisition in variety of ways

Even after signing a new contract, EPA and AFGE are still at odds over telework

ODNI allowing agencies to delay implementing new Chinese equipment ban

EPA working to learn about protecting trains from coronavirus

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