Also in today's Federal Newscast, GAO recommends the military services clear up their tattoo policies.
Also in today's Federal Newscast, Congress is going after sexual misconduct in Junior ROTC programs.
New screening testing guidance, updates on policies for unvaccinated individuals and more from the Safer Federal Workforce task force.
Also in today's Federal Newscast, murdered Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen's family files a $35 million lawsuit, and GSA is offering some new help to agencies to improve cybersecurity.
Recommendations to expand pay localities, adjust requirements to add new localities and more from the Federal Salary Council.
IG offices now have the ability to use a new tagging option when publishing documents to Oversight.gov, to flag reports related to DEIA issues.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to grow its health care workforce with new pay incentives and retain the in-demand employees it already has, now that a major VA health care bill has been signed into law.
Average processing times continue to rise, which kept the backlog of retirements claims 29,224 in July.
In today's Federal Newscast, the IRS is getting billions more for enforcement, and some feds in the West and Pacific Northwest expect some locality pay to be in their future.
New council recommendations would adjust several pay locality areas, but must get approval from the president's pay agent before implementation.
Also in today's Federal Newscast, the Biden Administration Office of Personnel Management gets its first second-in-command. And the Navy has a new top intelligence officer.
Rob Shriver, the associate director for employee services at OPM, will move from the associate director for employee services role into the deputy director role if confirmed by the Senate.
Having workers from a diverse range of backgrounds, it turns out, leads to having different and valuable perspectives.
Senate Democrats unveiled 12 draft appropriations bills, with a 10.1% boost for civilian agencies, and an 8.7% increase in defense spending.
Agencies are thinking about ways to boost employee engagement in a hybrid workforce, with more interactions and shorter learning sessions.