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Katy Kale, the acting GSA administrator, said the Federal Green Advisory Committee stepped out in front soon after the EO and created two new task forces—the federal building decarbonization task group and the environmental justice and equity task group.
April 28, 2021 -
The government is operating in the wake of a historic number of executive orders, memoranda and proclamations from the Biden White House. Ohio State law professor Peter Shane offered an assessment.
April 14, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Army issued a new strategy for straightening up the nation's flagpole in the Arctic.
March 17, 2021 -
The National Treasury Employees Union said agencies are responding to the Biden's administration's call to restore labor relations in a variety of ways. Some agencies are making plans to return to the bargaining table, while others haven't responded to requests to revisit previous contracts.
March 16, 2021 -
President Joe Biden wants the public sector to be an example for environmental sustainability. One of the biggest ways to reduce the U.S.’s carbon footprint is with real estate, as examined in this three-part special report.
March 16, 2021 -
Agencies that implemented policies from President Trump's 2018 workforce orders should work with federal unions to write new bargaining provisions, the Office of Personnel Management said Friday. OPM offered up more directions on how agencies should respond to a January executive order from the Biden administration that rescinded Trump's policies.
March 05, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, mass vaccination sites staffed by active duty military members are now up and running in three more cities, with more set to come online in the next few days.
February 25, 2021 -
Some solid career people are keeping the lights on at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. But the Biden administration has so far given few signals about what it plans to do.
February 19, 2021 -
Most career executives are accustomed to the steady stream of new directives and memos at the start of new administrations, but it puts pressure on them to ensure their employees don't experience policy whiplash.
February 03, 2021 -
The American Federation of Government Employees is pleased the Trump-era executive orders that limited collective bargaining and cut official time are gone. But the union is waiting on agencies to determine how exactly they'll revisit old contracts and repair working relationships.
January 26, 2021 -
The order also creates "central review of agency waivers" of Buy American, with the General Services Administration posting them on a website.
January 25, 2021 -
Already there are quite a few noticeable differences between the Biden and Trump administrations. Biden's mask mandate for federal employees and contractors - and the creation of a centralized pandemic task force for the workforce - is just one example.
January 25, 2021 -
President Joe Biden took executive action Friday to repeal at least four Trump-era executive orders that limited collective bargaining and stripped certain job protections from career federal employees.
January 22, 2021 -
In a slew of executive actions on his first day in office, President Joe Biden reinstated previously-canceled diversity and inclusion training for federal employees and issued a mask mandate for those working inside government buildings.
January 20, 2021 -
Donald Trump released current and former members of his administration from the terms of their ethics pledge
January 20, 2021