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Workforce

‘It’s a scary time’: DOJ employees fear escalation of threats following Election Day

Amid growing tensions, an employee group is urging DOJ leadership to ramp up its response to online threats many career federal workers continue to face.

Management

Some expert tips for getting through your security clearance

Intelligence Community

‘DOOBIE’ Act looks to ease security clearance restrictions on past marijuana use

Veterans Affairs

VA rule change could mean health care benefits for a million more veterans

Hiring/Retention

Blunt truth: No ‘significant changes’ for federal employees if Biden administration reclassifies marijuana

Congress

Congress ponders new discrimination protections for older employees

Defense News

How to make sure you keep that security clearance

Leaked Documents Investigation

Defense News

How the Air Force secrets leaker could end up getting away with it

MSPB

Workforce Rights/Governance

Service members and veterans get expanded anti-discrimination coverage

veteran-owned businesses

Defense News

The military vaccine mandate is dead. So now what?

Navy Fat Leonard

Navy

The long and twisted story of the biggest crook in Navy history

DoD budget, Navy

Congress

Senate appropriators propose to repeal Hyde, add tens of billions to Defense budget

Defense- Space Force

Commentary

What veterans and service members need to know about military discharge upgrades

women in the military, online harassment, DoD

Defense

For female service members, online harassment is a fact of life. For DoD, it’s not worth measuring

West Point, Army, cadets, military academy

Army

How West Point is likely to deal with drug-overdosing cadets

federal workforce

Workforce Rights/Governance

A federal employment attorney assesses the impact of having a Merit Systems Protection Board

Unions

Can the trend of decreasing employee unions be reversed?

Defense- Space Force

Defense News

Will making sexual harassment an explicit crime help the military crack down? Experts say maybe

An Air Force member takes a selfie while getting her shot of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 at a military base in Lima, Peru, Monday, March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Air Force

Only 800 airmen flat out refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine

Sgt. Serita Unin, a fireteam leader with Bison Company, 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment, Alaska Army National Guard, poses for a photo on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 16, 2021. Unin made Alaska National Guard history by becoming the first infantry qualified woman in the organization after she reclassified into the infantry military occupational specialty last month. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Edward Eagerton)

Defense

Growing numbers of service members getting COVID vaccine exemptions

Hollie Maloney

Workforce

What the FDA's new vaccine approval could mean for federal employee vaccine mandates

An aerial view of the Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia.

Defense

Potential military vaccine mandate brings distrust, support

FILE - In this April 26, 2021 file photo, a nursing student administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center at UNLV, in Las Vegas. Lagging vaccination rates among nursing home staff are being linked to a national increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths at senior facilities in July and are at the center of a federal investigation in a hard-hit Colorado location where disease detectives found many workers were not inoculated. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Federal Report

Will feds get The Vaccine — or sue instead?