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Workforce Rights/Governance

OPM delivers final rule on paid administrative leave, 8 years after law was passed

OPM said the years of delay on the administrative leave final rule came after “certain issues” arose in public comments on the proposed regulations in 2017.

Unions

TSA, AFGE see milestone contract as ‘pivot point’ for frontline workforce

Unions

TSA, AFGE aim to expand workforce options in new 7-year contract

Federal Report

Here’s how to fire a fed

Federal Report

You're fired! No, you're not. Hold it, wait a minute...

Agency Oversight

The government's people agency has a growing task list of its own

Congress

Connolly NDAA amendment would put a Schedule F revival to rest

FILE - In this May 18, 2020, file photo, Transportation Security Administration officers wear protective masks at a security screening area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. The Biden administration says it is moving to increase the pay and union rights for security screeners at the nation’s airports. The Department of Homeland Security directed the acting head of the TSA to come up with a plan within 90 days to raise the pay of the screeners and expand their rights to collective bargaining. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Workforce

20 years after 9/11, TSA officers renew calls for higher pay

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Workforce

Can the federal workforce work both at-will and non-politically?

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Workforce

Transportation Security Officers are carefully watching a bill in Congress that could change their lives

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Federal Report

Now the question is when, not how, to fix federal hiring

Nancy Pelosi

Congress

Congress eyes wide variety of federal workforce changes for future coronavirus relief bill

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Explainers

Know your new paid sick leave benefits during the coronavirus pandemic

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Hiring/Retention

Enough with all the hiring authorities already, CHCOs tell Congress

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2019, file photo, National Security Agency director and head of U.S. Cyber Command Gen. Paul Nakasone testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Nakasone says the military learned a lot as it worked with other government agencies to thwart Russian interference in the 2018 midterm elections. He says the focus has turned to the next election cycle. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

DoD Reporter's Notebook

New DoD personnel system hires cyber workers faster, but numbers still small

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Veterans Affairs

Exclusive Under new accountability act, VA employees fear one mistake will cost them their jobs

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.)/ (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Congress

Senate committee kicks off series of hearings on civil service reform

William Wiley, Co-Founder of Federal Employment Law Training Group, former Chief Counsel to Chairman of MSPB

Workforce Rights/Governance

MSPB will have 1 voting member in March. What happens next?

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DoD Reporter's Notebook

DoD targets 3,000 civilian workers for new Cyber Excepted Service

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Congress

VA unveils new SES accountability options as Senate fast-tracks vets omnibus

Robert McKenrick, Diana Rubens, Kimberly Graves, Antione Waller, Linda Haliday, Danny Pummill

Management

VA's struggles with MSPB open door for SES oversight changes