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FILE - The U.S. Capitol dome in Washington, Aug. 12, 2022. The Democratic-led House passed a short-term spending bill on Friday that finances the federal government through mid-December and provides another infusion of military and economic aid to Ukraine as lawmakers acted to avert a partial government shutdown set to begin after midnight. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Warnings have begun about ramifications of government shutdown

In today’s Federal Newscast: The alarm bells are ringing almost everywhere about the negative impacts of a government shutdown. The Labor Department’s…

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Revived bills would alter feds’ payment obligations during shutdowns, federal first responders’ pensions

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How Congress is forcing agencies to confront telework, and those public service student loans

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Gerry Connolly

House committee pushes forward on encouraging federal telework expansion

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(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Light from the morning sun illuminates the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. With Democrats holding a thin majority in Congress, passage of President Joe Biden's sweeping legislative agenda will be a challenge as negotiations continue in the 50-50 Senate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Federal employees score new bereavement leave benefits in 2022 NDAA

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(AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2021 file photo, Sarah Gonzalez of New York, a Nurse Practitioner, displays a COVID-19 vaccine card at a New York Health and Hospitals vaccine clinic in the Brooklyn borough of New York.  Workers in New York City-run hospitals and health clinics will have to get vaccinated or get tested weekly under a policy announced Wednesday, July 21,  to battle a rise in COVID-19 cases fueled by the highly contagious delta variant. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Agencies shouldn’t ask federal employees for vaccination proof, task force says

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In this March 2021 photo provided by Pfizer, vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared for packaging at the company's facility in Puurs, Belgium. On Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, the company said it started the application process for U.S. approval of a booster dose of its two-shot COVID-19 vaccine  for people ages 16 and older. (Pfizer via AP)

For federal managers, new vaccine and testing policy brings anxiety — and more unanswered questions

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(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)FILE- This Aug. 3, 2018, file photo shows a New Jersey Transit train leaving the Bound Brook Station in Bound Brook, N.J. Federal railway officials say the railroad industry has installed safety technology on nearly 90 percent of tracks where it is required, but “significant work” is needed to ensure the technology is completely installed by a December 2020 deadline. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

For 30 years, she’s risen through this agency’s ranks, always with the constituents in mind

Kimberly Price, director of policy and systems for the Railroad Retirement Board, is being honored by the Federal Managers Association as Manager of the Year.

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White House running out of time to restore functionality to MSPB, congressmen warn

Leaders of the House Oversight and Reform Government Operations Subcommittee are calling on the Biden administration to quickly nominate qualified members…

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Your federal pay raise prospects: Is silence really the best option?

Senate Republicans included a federal pay freeze for civilian employees in their 2021 appropriations bills. So where do things stand now?

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