Forest Service

The Forest Service claims progress in the effort to control western wildfires

The Forest Services, part of the Agriculture Department, is in the midst of a 10-year effort to better prevent wildfires, the kinds of seemingly out-of-control…

People

It’s not just low pay causing retention issues for federal firefighters

Hiring/Retention

Wiki Commons/Dlz28

For USDA, advancing DEIA means making long-term, internal changes

Workforce

Air Force will no longer shoot down Facebook foes

Federal Newscast

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack talks with Forest Service firefighter at the Del Rosa Fire Station during a tour of the Del Rosa Fire Station to promote wildfire fighting money included in the infrastructure bill passed last November Friday, Jan. 21, 2022 in San Bernardino, Calif. (Terry Pierson/The Orange County Register via AP)

Forest workers want a little help finding their roots from their agency

Federal Newscast

(U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service photo by Lisa Cox)

Practice makes perfect: firefighter Nick Vallardo trains with an engine crew as they prepare for the coming wildfire season. (Lisa Cox, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

CDO Council pilot fights wildfires using interagency data to target fuel sources

All About Data

Under infrastructure law, federal firefighters to see increase in pay

Pay

In this photo provided by the United States Forest Service, firefighters battle a wildfire, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, near Greenwood Lake in the Superior National Forest of northeastern Minnesota. The fire has burned more than 14 square miles and promoted a new round of evacuations of homes and cabins on Monday. (United States Forest Service via AP)

Forest Service publishes a plan to mitigate the risk of wild forest fires

Management

In this May 14, 2021, photo provided by the High Desert Museum, U.S. Forest Service firefighters carry out a prescribed burn on the grounds of the High Desert Museum, near Bend, Oregon. The prescribed burn is part of a massive effort in wildlands across the West to prepare for a fire season that follows the worst one on record. (Kyle Kosma/High Desert Museum via AP)

Biden expands pay, hiring for federal firefighters, but union warns it’s not enough

Workforce

FILE - In this photo March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. The IRS provided poor customer service during this year's tax filing season as taxpayers struggled with a rise in identity theft and complications related to President Barack Obamas health law, a government watchdog said Wednesday. A new report by the National Taxpayer Advocate says the IRS has been hampered by budget cuts. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

IRS discontinuing incentive payments for employees who go into office

Federal Newscast

Anne-Marie Fennell, Government Accountability Office

GAO: National park and forest employees left without adequate safety plans

Federal Drive

Study finds US public land workers facing assaults, threats

A congressional watchdog agency says federal employees overseeing U.S. public lands were assaulted or threatened at least 360 times over a five-year period

Workforce

In this May 18, 2017, photo, Nathan Singletary, 67, a social worker for 40 years, fills out paperwork at the AARP Foundation in Harrisburg, Pa. Singletary is beyond the traditional retirement age, but he’s only just beginning a new career - helping other low-income, unemployed Americans over age 55 find jobs. Singletary got his job through the half-century-old Senior Community Service Employment Program, a training and placement program underwritten by taxpayers aimed at putting older Americans back into the workforce. (AP Photo/Laurie Kellman)

NTEU says bar set too high in proving age discrimination

In today’s Federal Newscast, the National Treasury Employees Union wants the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court’s decision on age discrimination in…

Federal Newscast

Federal employee unions rally against Trump’s workforce executive orders

Unions

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said the goal of the rally was to give federal employees a “real voice on the job.”