Kamala Harris

Both parties already behind on presidential transition planning

No matter the election’s outcome, the “daunting” task of presidential transition planning is already going too slow, the Partnership for Public Service…

Management

White House sets ‘binding requirements’ for agencies to vet AI tools before using them

Artificial Intelligence

White House presses agencies to use apprenticeships for skills-based hiring

Workforce

Decade of pay stagnation continues for VP, senior political appointees

Federal Newscast

White House touts ‘significant results’ of task force after 80,000 feds opt to join a union

Unions

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Congress upholds pay freeze for political appointees, vice president through end of 2022

Pay

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Under new Biden initiative, agencies will do more to educate employees about collective bargaining

Unions

With donations rebounding during pandemic, CFC ready to build on last year’s successes

Workforce

Biden administration wants government to be standard bearer for union relations

Federal Newscast

Securing the inauguration from a continuity of government standpoint

People

Capitol has to get back to business

Congress

Senate Democrats want hearing on how agencies have responded to the coronavirus pandemic

In todays’ Federal Newscast, Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee worry the panel is failing to hold federal agencies…

Federal Newscast

U.S. troops gather on the USS Wasp where U.S. President Donald Trump will deliver Memorial Day remarks to the troops, at the U.S. Military Base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, Tuesday, May 28, 2019.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Senate passes NDAA, includes pay raise for troops

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Senate passes its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a 3.1% pay raise for active duty military.

Federal Newscast

These four amendments snuck into the Senate defense authorization bill

Congress

Ninety three amendments were just packed into the Senate version of the 2020 defense authorization bill.