Jennifer Wexton

More guardrails needed for any potential agency relocations, federal advocates say

A rulemaking petition calls on OPM to establish a clear, standardized process anytime federal officials may be considering agency relocations.

Workforce

After USDA Antideficiency Act violation, lawmakers push bill for more relocation oversight

Workforce

TSP board shares ‘optimistic’ timeline for resolving call center issues

TSP

Connolly NDAA amendment would put a Schedule F revival to rest

Congress

(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

House to support 2.7% federal pay raise, Wexton says

Pay

DMV reps want to let feds use leave to get vaccinated

Federal Newscast

Congress will let federal employees carry over more annual leave into 2021

Benefits

A voter stands on a social distance marker outside the Washington County Election Center in Hagerstown, Md., Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, for the first day of in-person early voting. (Colleen McGrath/The Herald-Mail via AP)

2020 roundup: Most key lawmakers for feds keep congressional seats

Congress

In this May 4, 2017 photo, Melissa Jones, right, a nurse educator with Alosa Health, speaks with Dr. Dorothy Wilhelm in an exam room at a medical office in Monroeville, Pa. Jones visits medical offices in western Pennsylvania to educate doctors about new opioid prescribing guidelines. (AP Photo/Carla K. Johnson)

VA still has a slew of appointments to make up

Federal Newscast

Annual leave will be easily restored for ‘essential’ employees during pandemic, OPM says

Benefits

Annual leave carryover, new anti-discrimination safeguards for feds in House NDAA

Congress

FILE - In this May 27, 2020, file photo, a medical worker wearing personal protective equipment cleans gurneys in the emergency department intake area in New York. Hospital data related to the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. will now be collected by a private technology firm, rather than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — a move the Trump administration says will speed up reporting but one that concerns some public health leaders. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Senate Democrats want to secure hazard pay for frontline VA health workers

In today’s Federal Newscast, Senators say they’re still fielding complaints from VA health employees who say they don’t have enough support to work safely.

Federal Newscast

Space Force organizational structure takes shape

In today’s Federal Newscast, we looks at THE SPACE FORCE, its three echelons of command, with lesser structures called, “deltas.” The deltas are like the…

Federal Newscast

Jennifer Wexton, Brenda Lawrence, Steny Hoyer

Vacation on hold? House bill would allow feds to carry over unused annual leave

Workforce

A new bill from Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) would allow federal employees to federal employees can hold onto the annual leave they may have to forfeit at the end of the year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Other lawmakers, including a bipartisan group of nearly 20 senators, are advocating for hazard pay for certain frontline workers.