Workplace Discrimination

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

After telling their supervisors they were pregnant, the CBP employees allege that they were forced into temporary light duty status and saw cuts to benefits…

Workforce

60th anniversary March on Washington panelists share how their agencies are still working toward the original vision of the 1963 event.

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

People

Black sailors discharged for ‘bad conduct’ receive official stamp of approval

Federal Newscast

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

Workforce Rights/Governance

Pregnant CBP employees involuntarily placed on ‘light duty,’ allege systematic discrimination

Workforce Rights/Governance

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

Federal Newscast

NASA.gov

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

Workforce

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

Workforce Rights/Governance

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

Workforce Rights/Governance

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

People

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)

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

Federal Report

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.

Biden signs order making sexual harassment a punishable offense in military

The executive order works in tandem with provisions of the 2022 defense authorization act.

Defense

Biden creates sweeping diversity and inclusion initiative through new executive order

The executive order, which President Joe Biden signed Friday, addresses everything from unpaid federal internships and pay equity for members of underserved…

Workforce

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

Federal Newscast

National Security experts are calling on the U.S. to expand its list of banned Chinese companies. A small-town VA employee’s $100,000 scheme gets him 46 months in federal prison. And following the science, the Senate confirms POTUS’s pick to lead his Office of Science and Technology Policy