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Workforce Rights/Governance

In $45M settlement, CBP to make reforms addressing workplace discrimination

CBP agreed to enact a new policy presuming pregnant officers can continue to serve in their positions, rather than being systematically placed on light duty.

Workforce

Pregnant workers can move forward with class lawsuit alleging discrimination at CBP

People

Agencies moving forward on jobs and freedom: Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington

Federal Newscast

Black sailors discharged for 'bad conduct' receive official stamp of approval

Workforce Rights/Governance

What agencies and federal employees should know about the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Workforce Rights/Governance

Discrimination case at Customs and Border Protection reaches class action status

Federal Newscast

Reports of federal race, sex and age discrimination are on the decline

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Workforce

Case alleging racial discrimination in NASA’s employee evaluations set to move forward

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Workforce Rights/Governance

Female DEA agents will receive a settlement, three decades after filing a sex discrimination case

union, federal mediation and conciliation service

Workforce Rights/Governance

A former U.S. Attorney intern leads the fight for Judiciary employees' rights

Neheh Diallo

People

USAID's first DEI director starting with demographic data for recruits, promotions

FILE - In this April 1, 2014, file photo, the headquarters for the U.S. Agency for International Development is seen in Washington. The state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted spear-phishing assault on U.S. and foreign government agencies and think tanks using an email marketing account of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Microsoft said, late Thursday, May 27, 2021. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Federal Report

They have their plans, can federal agencies follow through on equity?

Freshman midshipmen, known as plebes, climb ropes on an obstacle course during Sea Trials, a day of physical and mental challenges that caps off the freshman year at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

Defense

Biden signs order making sexual harassment a punishable offense in military

Joe Biden, Merrick Garland

Workforce

Biden creates sweeping diversity and inclusion initiative through new executive order

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Federal Newscast

$100,000 ID-theft scheme earns VA employee a 46-month federal prison sentence

FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, a U.S. flag flies at the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba. The United States is renewing calls for the Cuban government to determine the source of “attacks” on U.S. diplomats in Cuba that have affected some two dozen people. At a senior-level meeting with Cuban officials in Washington on June 14, 2018, the State Department said it had again raised the issue, which has prompted a significant reduction in staffing at the U.S. Embassy in Havana.(AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Federal Newscast

Senators want to provide financial aid for those suffering from mysterious Havana Syndrome

Workforce

Next EEOC conference tackles the latest developments in unlawful discrimination

Lloyd Austin

DoD Reporter's Notebook

DoD stands up 90 day commission on sexual assault, with several interim steps

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Veterans Affairs

New VA secretary ‘digging in’ on agency’s collective bargaining challenges

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Federal Newscast

Federal judge blocks part of Trump's diversity training ban

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2017, photo, flags decorate a space outside the office of the Education Secretary at the Education Department in Washington. President-elect Joe Biden has chosen the education commissioner for Connecticut and a former public school teacher to serve as education secretary. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Federal Newscast

IG: Education had decent reopening plans for allowing employees back

FEMA

Workforce

'We have a way to go and a lot to do,' FEMA administrator says of culture improvement efforts

FEMA

Workforce

FEMA calls workplace harassment and discrimination findings 'alarming' and 'unacceptable'