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Biden picks 233 civil service leaders for the 2022 Presidential Rank Awards

President Joe Biden picked 233 federal employees across 33 agencies as winners of the 2022 Presidential Rank Awards.

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Advocacy groups raise concerns about federal pay system amid growing wage gap

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FILE - The U.S. Capitol in Washington is pictured on Friday, August 5, 2022. Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022, a compromise less ambitious than Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets party goals of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Bill to prevent Schedule F from resurfacing advances out of House committee

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Senate Dems introduce bill to prevent Schedule F from resurfacing

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Lawmakers renew push to strip investigation authority from VA whistleblower office

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Senior Executives Association’s outgoing president describes org’s changes

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Merit Systems Protection Board, files, seal, stack, papers

Senior federal employees also have reason to be glad the Merit Systems Protection Board is back in business

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FILE - Light from the morning sun illuminates the Senate side of the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 3, 2021. The Senate is poised to vote Wednesday to void a Biden administration regulation that requires businesses with 100 or more workers have their workers vaccinated against the coronavirus or submit to weekly testing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

A history of the Merit Systems Protection Board and its relevance today

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A new way for senior executives to get professional recognition

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Time for government, industry to meet in person again

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President Joe Biden speaks from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, on his administrations plans to lower the costs of prescription drugs, letting Medicare negotiate drug prices, capping how much seniors and people with disabilities have to pay for drugs. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

After year-long hiatus, Biden names 230 winners for Presidential Rank Awards

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Biden will now require vaccines for all federal employees via new executive order

The order simply requires agencies to stand up a program requiring vaccinations for all executive branch employees. A second order requires agencies to…

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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2021 file photo, Sarah Gonzalez of New York, a Nurse Practitioner, displays a COVID-19 vaccine card at a New York Health and Hospitals vaccine clinic in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Workers in New York City-run hospitals and health clinics will have to get vaccinated or get tested weekly under a policy announced Wednesday, July 21, to battle a rise in COVID-19 cases fueled by the highly contagious delta variant. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Agencies shouldn’t ask federal employees for vaccination proof, task force says

More details are trickling out from the Biden administration about its vaccine and testing policy for federal employees and contractors.

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United States Merit Systems Protection Board

Biden taps MSPB acting executive as final nominee to fill the board

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An aide for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said the panel is planning to hold a hearing on the Merit Systems Protection Board nominees in the coming weeks.