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

The case of a dismissed VA chaplain shows how long it can take to resolve an appealed firing.

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

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(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)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

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

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Nancy Pelosi

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

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Amelia Brust

Know your new paid sick leave benefits during the coronavirus pandemic

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

Employees say the Veterans Affairs Department’s interpretation of the Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act doesn’t give them enough time to…

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

Senate committee kicks off series of hearings on civil service reform

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ federal workforce subcommittee said it’s on a fact-finding mission this year. Subcommittee Chairman…

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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?

Unless President-elect Donald Trump appoints two new members quickly, the Merit Systems Protection Board will likely have one voting member come March 1, when Chairman Susan Tsui Grundmann’s term expires. But the upcoming seat-changes have federal employment experts wondering whether this is the beginning of the end for MSPB.

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