Labor Department
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The Obama Administration has issued long-awaited final rules designed to keep companies who routinely violate labor laws from getting federal contracts. Vendors will have to report any violations of 14 different labor laws, and eventually state laws too, directly to the Labor Department. Eric Crusius, attorney at Miles & Stockbridge, joins Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about the rules.
August 25, 2016 -
Final guidance for the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order includes a phase-in schedule for contractors, as well as an opportunity for pre-assessment from the Labor Department.
August 23, 2016 -
DHS, EPA, 18F and others are developing separate contracts for dev/ops services, creating both a much needed culture change, but possibly also another area where contract proliferation and duplication reign.
August 08, 2016 -
The Labor Department hired Booz Allen Hamilton under a $74.2 million contract to manage its financial management system while it prepares to move to a federal shared service provider in 2019.
June 21, 2016 -
Commerce, Energy, Labor and NASA told House lawmakers how they each are meeting the spirit and intent of the IT reform law.
May 23, 2016 -
A new site from the Labor Department will point veterans to the right resources they need to find a job or start their own business when they re-enter civilian life. The new Veterans.gov collects information from a variety of sources and easily organizes it in one place, said Terry Gerton, deputy assistant secretary for policy within the Labor Department's Veterans' Employment and Training Service.
May 02, 2016 -
The departments of Labor and Energy are still working through their final plans to implement the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act.
April 04, 2016 -
Dawn Leaf, the chief information officer at the Labor Department, speaks to Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm about her 30-plus-year career story both in private and public sector.
March 09, 2016 -
For many agencies, the move to cloud computing services is predicated by policy, legal and contracting decisions made by more than just the chief information officer.
February 05, 2016 -
Even the smallest opinion counts at the agencies with the most satisfied employees, according to the results of the 2015 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government.
December 08, 2015 -
The Labor Department used to be one of the worst agencies to work for, according to its own employees. But now, its leaders are focused on making the agency a model employer, says Deputy Labor Secretary Chris Lu.
August 31, 2015 -
Veterans Affairs wants to make it easier for veterans to find its services. One suggestion by Secretary Bob McDonald is to create a veterans.gov website. But there's a problem. The Labor Department owns that URL. Federal News Radio's executive editor Jason Miller writes about this situation in his weekly feature, "Inside the Reporter's Notebook." He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss a potential solution to Labor and VA's problem.
August 31, 2015 -
The departments of Veterans Affairs and Labor could use a long-established approach to making services for veterans easier to find if they'd only remember it's there.
August 31, 2015 -
The Labor Department used to be one of the worst places to work, according to its own employees. Secretary Tom Perez set out to change that when he arrived in July 2013. Deputy Secretary Chris Lu says it's his personal mission too. Today the Labor Department is right in the middle of the pack. Lu tells Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp how it's aiming for the top.
August 28, 2015 -
Labor Department called on Edward C. Hugler last year when the agency found out its private-sector financial services provider was about to go bankrupt.
August 14, 2015