NFFE

Navy ramping up adoption of new pay and hiring system for cyber employees

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Navy’s Fleet Cyber Command started wide-scale implementation of the Cyber Excepted Service this month.

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2019 file photo, construction crews install new border wall sections seen from Tijuana, Mexico. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., says the Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pensions accounts to help President Donald Trump pay for his long-sought border wall. Durbin told The Associated Press, “it’s coming out of military pay and pensions, $1 billion, that’s the plan.”(AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

DoD authorizes up to $1 billion for wall at U.S. southern border

Federal Newscast

2020 already? Lawmakers propose 3.6 percent federal pay raise

Pay

AP/Paul Sancya

Federal judge denies restraining order on shutdown’s impacts on excepted employees

Government Shutdown

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

Federal employees rally, demand end to shutdown holding pay ‘hostage’

Government Shutdown

Federal News Network

D.C.-area lawmakers urge colleagues to raise awareness of nationwide shutdown impact

Government Shutdown

AFGE/Chelsea Bland

Unions sue VA over decision to cut official time for some employees

Unions

Trump hints at agreement to avoid government shutdown

Federal Newscast

Recent court ruling on Trump EOs may set up further debate over federal collective bargaining

Unions

Federal district judge invalidates 9 provisions of Trump executive orders

Workforce

Judge hears oral arguments in unions’ legal challenge of Trump’s executive orders

Workforce Rights/Governance

FILE - In this July 11, 2017 file photo, departing and parked aircraft intersect at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. Federal officials are imposing new rules on nighttime landings at San Francisco airport after a close call last month. The FAA will also require 2 controllers in the tower. The changes come after an Air Canada jet narrowly missed planes on the ground before aborted an off-line landing on July 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

FAA safety inspectors improperly allowed planes to fly without critical safety information

In today’s Federal Newscast, a whistleblower and the Office of Special Counsel said inspectors with the Federal Aviation Administration cleared planes…

Federal Newscast

HUD tells union to vacate federal office space, citing executive orders

The Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to engage in mid-term negotiations with AFGE over official time.

Unions

Legal challenges mount against Trump’s workforce executive orders, as 13 unions file joint lawsuit

Unions

The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) is leading a coalition of 13 unions in another lawsuit against the president’s recent workforce executive orders.