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The Labor Department has revived an old idea: Salaried private-sector employees who work overtime. Well, you can't just compensate them with pizza. A rule proposed last week would mandate overtime for people making up to $55,000 a year. The current ceiling is $35,000.
Alan Thompson, the CIO, and Justin Black, the CTO, of the House of Representatives were among the federal IT executives leaving their positions over the summer.
More than two dozen agencies have posted their artificial intelligence use case inventories as required by an executive order and by law.
In today's Federal Newscast: The Defense Department now has an option to reach the cloud from outside the continental United States. The Postal Service says it can account for all of its employees on the Hawaiian island of Maui. And the Labor Department has uncovered more improper spending of COVID relief funds.
Apprenticeships go back for eons in time. They became codified in the United States some 86 years ago with enactment of the National Apprenticeship Act. Now the Labor Department has brought new focus to this part of job training through what it calls the Apprentice Trailblazer Initiative.
Persistence and focus have paid off for one Labor Department policy advisor. His beat for 23 years of federal service has been access for people with disabilities, access to transportation, jobs, and technology at the federal and state levels.
Although the new bill from Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) would not entirely solve pay compression, the Senior Executives Association said “any action is better than no action.”
Mangala Kuppa, the director of business application services in Labor’s CIO’s office, said the agency hopes to continue to develop the portal using chatbots and other technologies to better serve citizens.
Creating new locality pay areas while larger federal pay problems loom is “akin to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic,” the Senior Executives Association said. The organization is joining with others to call for a proposal from the Biden administration to fix pay compression.
In today's Federal Newscast: Two GOP lawmakers are looking to defund armed regulatory officers at certain federal agencies. The Office of Personnel Management reminds agency managers they must not forget the "weather and safety leave" option. And it looks like your latest Zoom meeting is probably a public record.
House lawmakers showed little support to provide more funding for the Technology Modernization Fund in fiscal 2024, but the board still has hundreds of millions of dollars to loan out.
Mangala Kuppa, the director of business application services in the chief information officer’s office for the Labor Department, was a finalist for the 2023 Leadership Award from Women in Technology.
During this exclusive webinar, moderator Tom Temin and agency and industry leaders will discuss what opportunities and resources are available for veterans and how employers can better meet the needs of veterans.
The Office of Management and Budget, in a memo last month, called on deputy secretaries to develop Work Environment Plans that take a closer look at agency satisfaction scores for both employees and customers.