executive order
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House Democrats are demanding the Trump administration immediately stop implementing the president's Schedule F executive order until they can determine the EO's full impact on the career federal workforce.
October 28, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Oversight.gov Authorization Act would formally require the upkeep of the website where users can access all public reports released by agency IGs.
October 28, 2020 -
The National Treasury Employees Union is suing the Trump administration over the president's recent Schedule F executive order. Three House Democrats introduced new legislation intended to nullify the EO and protect career federal employees impacted by it.
October 27, 2020 -
Former Chief Human Capital Officer for the Department of Homeland Security, Jeff Neal provides some background on the career civil service and why the recent Schedule F executive order undermines it.
October 26, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of Personnel Management is out with preliminary guidance on the president's recent executive order.
October 26, 2020 -
In theory, a Biden administration could, for its own purposes, use the Trump executive order.
October 26, 2020 -
Reaction over the president's new executive order on the creation of a new Schedule F for certain policy-making positions ranges from "forget it!" to "finally!"
October 26, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Postal Service is working with the FBI to provide fingerprinting services at more than 100 post offices across the country.
October 23, 2020 -
Federal contractors can continue unconscious bias programs and still meet the demands of the president's recent executive order on diversity and inclusion training, Labor Department says, as long as programs don't touch on "white fragility" or "white privilege."
October 20, 2020 -
The controversial White House directive banning what the Trump administration thinks is divisive diversity training - it applies to federal contractors, too.
October 06, 2020 -
A new draft policy from the Office of Personnel Management reveals what jobs are common in the federal workforce and the qualifications currently needed to hold those positions.
October 05, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Congress makes another push to allow federal employees and military members to opt-out of the president's payroll tax deferral.
October 05, 2020 -
To implement the president's recent executive order on diversity and inclusion training, the Office of Personnel Management is effectively pausing such agency programs for all federal employees.
October 02, 2020 -
It'll be up to political appointees to determine whether agency diversity and inclusion training runs afoul of the president's recent executive order on "divisive" race and gender stereotyping -- and whether federal employees should be disciplined for promoting it.
September 28, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, agencies have a little more guidance now on how they're supposed to implement the president's recent federal hiring executive order.
September 28, 2020