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In today's Federal Newscast, federal employee unions are responding to President Biden's new vaccine guidance.
The Department of Health and Human Services is the latest agency to announce a reset in labor relations with its union, following a Biden administration executive order that restored collective bargaining and official time.
The new vaccine requirements apply to all federal employees and onsite contractors, the Biden administration said Thursday.
House members are silent on federal pay in their 2022 draft appropriations bill, meaning they'll defer to the president's recommendation for a 2.7% raise for employees next year.
There is a new effort to beef up the Internal Revenue Service. Give it more funds, resources, and all-important, people to do the job.
The Biden administration on Thursday lifted the cap on the number of federal employees who can work in the office, but agencies must first submit and finalize reentry plans, update COVID-19 safety protocols, meet union obligations and give the workforce enough advanced notice.
The Biden administration will recommend a 2.7% federal pay raise for civilian federal employees in 2022. The president's budget request also outlines a few steps agencies will take to recruit more young talent and improve federal internships.
The Office of Personnel Management is reviewing a 2017 executive order from the Trump administration, which disbanded formal labor-management relations forums.
All federal employees, including some retirees and seasonal workers who received recent debt notices indicating otherwise, still have until Jan. 3, 2022 to repay deferred payroll taxes from last year before interest will accrue.
As pandemic guidelines change, the House Oversight and Reform Committee advanced legislation that would require specific workplace safety plans from federal agencies as they prepare to reopen offices.
Federal Drive with Tom Temin concluded its four-part series, Federal Unions: For better or for worse, with the president of one of the major unions itself, the National Treasury Employees Union's Tony Reardon.
What is the proper role of union today? And do they help or hinder what JFK called the effective conduct of public business? We're exploring the question in a series of interviews this week.
They're here to stay regardless. It works well when everyone keeps the mission as the North Star.
The Biden administration is calling for an $80 billion investment in the IRS over the next decade, with the expectation that it will bring in $700 billion in tax revenue by shrinking the "tax gap" between what taxpayers owe and what the IRS collects every year.