Everett Kelley

First Look

More House appropriators target federal telework, office space

The 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill includes language specifically targeting federal telework reporting requirements.

Congress

American Federation of Government Employees

Image of leaders at AFGE and TSA at signing ceremony.

TSA, AFGE see milestone contract as ‘pivot point’ for frontline workforce

Unions

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A visual representation of a telework desk.

Congress calls for more details on federal telework in 2024 spending package

Budget

White House presses agencies to use apprenticeships for skills-based hiring

Workforce

6-bill minibus rewards some agencies, while slashing budgets for others

Budget

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AFGE rallies for 7.4% federal employee pay raise, spending deal to avoid government shutdown

Pay

Proposal to reform pay for blue-collar feds gets committee approval, but concerns remain

Pay

VA signs new labor agreement with AFGE, its first update in more than a decade

Workforce

VA, AFGE reach ‘historic’ settlement to reinstate, compensate thousands of wrongfully fired feds

Veterans Affairs

Hundreds of employees rally behind 8.7% proposed federal pay raise

Unions

Union leaders, lawmakers call for expanded pay, benefits for federal workforce

Congress

Initial plans to cap pay raise for hundreds of NSF employees gain major union pushback

The American Federation of Government Employees raised concerns about initial plans to cap pay for hundreds of employees at the National Science Foundation,…

Pay

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget in Washington, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (Al Drago/Pool Photo via AP)

Democrats reintroduce bill to give feds 8.7% average pay raise next year

In what has become tradition in recent years, a bicameral pair of Democrats proposed a bill to give most civilian federal employees an 8.7% pay raise in 2024.

Pay

Why a continuing resolution is ‘not enough’ to resolve staff issues at SSA

Budget

The Social Security Administration wants to hire 4,000 new employees and drastically reduce processing times during 2023, but agency officials say they can’t get there without full-year funding from Congress.