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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)

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

DHS Secretary Mayorkas is reviewing proposals from the Transportation Security Administration, along with input from the American Federation of Government…

Workforce

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

Workforce

(AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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

Workforce

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

Federal Report

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

Congress

Amelia Brust

Know your new paid sick leave benefits during the coronavirus pandemic

Explainers

Enough with all the hiring authorities already, CHCOs tell Congress

Hiring/Retention

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)

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

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Exclusive

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

Veterans Affairs

Senate committee kicks off series of hearings on civil service reform

Congress

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

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

Workforce Rights/Governance

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

DoD will ask around 3,000 current employees to move from the traditional civil service system to one that offers them fewer job protections but might also…

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald/AP

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

Accountability in the Senior Executive Service will be at the center of congressional discussions on a new omnibus legislative package for the Veterans…

Congress

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

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

Management

Senior leaders at the Veterans Affairs Department say the bill that was supposed to help them hold agency senior executives more accountable isn’t working. Agency leaders are considering changes to the VA Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 (Choice Act).

Title 5

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

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

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

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

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

Know your new paid sick leave benefits during the coronavirus pandemic

Enough with all the hiring authorities already, CHCOs tell Congress

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

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

Senate committee kicks off series of hearings on civil service reform

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

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

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

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

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