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Austin orders new steps to curb sexual assault while panel studies the problem

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is telling the military services to stand up new violence prevention workforces, identify “high risk” bases and assess their…

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Office that oversees congressional employee rights having a busier new year than normal

Congress

Federal chemical safety and security programs have a communication, overlap problem

Agency Oversight

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Federal employees disheartened by Capitol riots but unsure how to rectify damage

Workforce

Forthcoming Army plan seeks to ‘transform’ organic industrial base

Army

NNSA leader traveling to all sites to get situation report

Workforce

EPA employees fear phase three reopening, declare ‘no confidence’ in agency safety efforts

Workforce

As agencies reopen, federal buildings security sheds light on coronavirus protections

Facilities/Construction

National Park advocates call for slow, controlled re-opening

A group that includes many National Park Service former employees and supporters is urging the Trump administration to go slow when it comes to reopening…

Workforce

FILE - This Oct. 14, 2015, file photo shows the Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md. The FDA says it is resuming inspections of some of the riskiest foods such as cheeses, produce and infant formula as early as Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Federal food inspectors contracting coronavirus as plants stay open

When you put those burgers on the grill this weekend, remember the 6,500 federal food safety inspectors working in meatpacking plants ordered to stay open.

Workforce

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2019, file photo, doors at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building are locked and covered with blinds as a sign posted advises that the office will be closed during the partial government shutdown in Seattle. Videos and reports claiming that you'll have to pay back the relief checks the federal government is sending to millions of Americans are false, federal agencies confirmed to The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

COVID-19 hits your tax refund

Federal Report

Each year, tax professionals urge people who are due refunds to file early and electronically. Now there’s a new reason to do just that.

Austin orders new steps to curb sexual assault while panel studies the problem

Office that oversees congressional employee rights having a busier new year than normal

Federal chemical safety and security programs have a communication, overlap problem

Federal employees disheartened by Capitol riots but unsure how to rectify damage

Forthcoming Army plan seeks to ‘transform’ organic industrial base

NNSA leader traveling to all sites to get situation report

EPA employees fear phase three reopening, declare ‘no confidence’ in agency safety efforts

OPM looks to change when it owes back-pay from personnel disputes

Implement plan F: End teleworking!

Federal contractors describe onboarding in the age of coronavirus

As agencies reopen, federal buildings security sheds light on coronavirus protections

National Park advocates call for slow, controlled re-opening

Federal food inspectors contracting coronavirus as plants stay open

COVID-19 hits your tax refund

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