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Workforce

Wildland firefighters at the Forest Service work beyond their job duties. Their union says that’s a big problem

NFFE says skipped-over job duties that wildland firefighters perform for the Forest Service could mean they’re missing out on thousands of dollars a year.

Hiring/Retention

Forest Service lifts hiring pause, but plans to only fill ‘highest priority’ vacancies

Federal Report

With 'spying bosses' on the rise, where do federal agencies stand on employee monitoring?

Budget

6-bill minibus rewards some agencies, while slashing budgets for others

Pay

As agencies face budget uncertainty, Democrats propose a 7.4% pay raise for feds

Federal Report

4 ways federal pay has changed in the last year

Pay

Despite massive bipartisanship, a pay raise for federal wildland firefighters is still at risk

FILE - This May 25, 2021 file photo shows a U.S. Passport cover in Washington. The United States has issued its first passport with an “X” gender designation, a milestone in the recognition of the rights of people who don't identify as male or female. (AP Photo/Eileen Putman)

Federal Report

Fed up with the State Department’s passport delays? So are its employees

CBP, Enforce and Protect Act

Pay

Bill roundup: Committee OKs Border Patrol pay raise, CBP hiring, permanent federal firefighter raise

FILE -Firefighters work at the scene of forest fire near Kyuyorelyakh village at Gorny Ulus area, west of Yakutsk, in Russia Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. A warming planet and land use changes mean more wildfires will scorch large parts of the globe in coming decades. That's according to a UN report released Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022 that says many governments are ill-prepared to address the problem. (AP Photo/Ivan Nikiforov, File)

Federal Newscast

Federal firefighters temporary pay raise goes permanent

Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) speaks to reporters in front of the Capitol building about workforce challenges for federal wildland firefighters. Photo by Drew Friedman, Federal News Network.

Pay

There will be ‘mass exodus’ of federal firefighters without a permanent pay solution

Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.), accompanied by federal wildland firefighters and union leaders, speaks to reporters in front of the Capitol building.

Pay

With time running out on a temporary pay raise, federal firefighters press Congress for a permanent one

Federal firefighters working at Watervliet Arsenal in Watervliet, N.Y. (Photo by Sidewinder Photography)

Workforce

Revived bills would alter feds’ payment obligations during shutdowns, federal first responders’ pensions

Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, testifies before the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Veterans Affairs

VA expects to ‘significantly expedite’ hiring process by giving some applicants shorter window to apply

AFGE FAIR Act union rally

Unions

Hundreds of employees rally behind 8.7% proposed federal pay raise

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Workforce

Federal employees would get paid family and medical leave under reintroduced legislation

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget in Washington, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (Al Drago/Pool Photo via AP)

Pay

Democrats reintroduce bill to give feds 8.7% average pay raise next year

IT modernization

Veterans Affairs

VA bill granting full collective bargain rights to health care workers passes House

Photo by Paul Dawson/U.S. Forest Service via AP

Hiring/Retention

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

Unions

Federal unions have a way to locate unrepresented employees, OPM says

Congress

Senate Dems introduce bill to prevent Schedule F from resurfacing

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)

Federal Newscast

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

Telework

Workforce

How Congress is forcing agencies to confront telework, and those public service student loans

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