National Treasury Employees Union

Why long-term funding is what agencies need, yet what they worry about

Agencies need multiyear funding to get big modernization projects done. Otherwise it is piecemeal, depending on the year-to-year whims of Congress.

Congress

Union calls for FDIC to ‘follow the law’ after pivot on return-to-office plans

Unions

Proposed 2% federal pay raise gets support in 2025 defense authorization bill

Pay

IRS extends remote work pilot, in bid to ‘keep up’ with workforce expectations

Workforce

Is entrepreneurship in government even a thing?

Management

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Another column on retirement. This time, I’m joining you

Federal Report

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

Federal Report

OPM outlines how agencies, unions can recreate labor-management forums

Unions

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Biden administration locks in plans aiming to block Schedule F for good

Workforce

Federal telework, work-life balance often top issues in collective bargaining

Unions

More guardrails needed for any potential agency relocations, federal advocates say

Workforce

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Congress calls for more details on federal telework in 2024 spending package

Congressional appropriators lay out six new agency reporting requirements on federal telework and return-to-office in the 2024 government spending agreement.

Budget

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

Along with promoting apprenticeships, the new executive order re-establishes labor-management forums between federal unions and agency managers.

Workforce

IRS gets pushback on its return-to-office plans — for going too far, and not far enough

Workforce

Members of Congress say the IRS isn’t setting a high enough standard for in-office work, and that constituents remain unable to get their tax questions answered