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The 1,600 employees of the National Science Foundation started working from home in March - a familiar story to so many across the country. But NSF might have been a little more prepared to make the switch.
August 13, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, federal employees are learning a little more about the paid parental leave program.
August 11, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, 30 years after the passage of the CFO Act, the Government Accountability Office tells Congress it has some work to do.
August 07, 2020 -
Employee unions say the Environmental Protection Agency has entered the next phase of its reopening plan without regard to its own metrics and criteria, which show rising coronavirus cases and positivity rates in the Washington, D.C. region. EPA down
August 05, 2020 -
For strategy insight into this new normal, a panel of federal practitioners convened to discuss them.
August 04, 2020 -
Congressional leaders haven't agreed yet to the big-ticket items in the next coronavirus relief package, but members are already pushing for smaller provisions. A bipartisan group of senators want Congress to require maximum telework for federal employees in the next bill.
August 03, 2020 -
Lawmakers probably won't have time to slip ideas to better space procurement in this year's defense policy bill.
August 03, 2020 -
As telework gets old, leadership needs to remember the whole employee. That's why some agencies are taking steps for the care and feeding of their employees' psyches as this wears on.
July 31, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, agencies have spent almost $18 billion on goods and services in response to the coronavirus pandemic from March to June, and 47% of that was not competed among vendors.
July 30, 2020 -
A Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee is holding a series of hearings to collect best practices on telework, which members say may inform new legislation or policy for the federal workforce.
July 28, 2020 -
Early in 2020, as a pandemic prepared to wreak havoc across the United States, HHS was a major part of the equation in dealing with an environment almost no one really imagined: large-scale telework.
July 28, 2020 -
Agencies that handle classified information have had to perform a kind of juggling act to ensure their employees’ safety from the coronavirus while also guaranteeing that the work that needs to gets done.
July 23, 2020 -
The Energy Department said it was unlikely local conditions in the National Capital Region would support fully 'back to normal' return for its employees. The department instead said it will enter into new telework agreements with employees who need more flexibilities.
July 23, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, COVID-19 has forced the cancellation of yet another government conference – this time, the largest in the country.
July 23, 2020 -
Improper payments to prisoners and the deceased amounted to 0.04% of CARES Act dollars.
July 23, 2020