Security clearances, telework, official time: Federal workforce sought understanding amid anxiety in 2018
2018 saw changes to the federal workforce and how it operates, from security clearances to telework to official time. Take a look back at some of the headlines ...
After the Office of Management Budget detailed 34 reorganization ideas in June, many questions remained. The Trump administration proposed moving nutrition assistance programs out of Agriculture to a newly named Health and Public Welfare Department, moving all federal food safety functions under one entity within USDA and transferring other offices within the department’s current structure to other agencies. That cause some anxiety among the federal workforce, concerned for the future of their jobs, so agency and department leaders reached out via email to assure them.
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