Workforce
FLRA Chair Justifies High Overturn Rate By Saying Arbitrators Are ‘Exceeding Authority’
A study by an arbitrator found that Colleen Duffy Kiko’s FLRA has set overturned awards roughly three times as often as the FLRA during the Obama and George W. Bush administrations.
Pay & Benefits
Buy This and Hope You Don’t Get Your Money’s Worth
The ins and outs of life insurance.
Route Fifty
Where Are State and Local Leaders on This ‘People Map’ of the U.S.?
A new map shows the most Wikapedia’d person from different cities and towns across the country.
Workforce
Retirement Claims Backlog Inches Down in May
The pile of pending claims shrunk by nearly 600 last month and is slightly smaller than it was at the same time last year.
Route Fifty
FCC Votes to Stop More Suspected Robocalls
Complaints about robocalls have been a major issue for state attorneys general, who advocated for more federal action.
Nextgov
Digital Trends That Could Send Your Project Back to the Drawing Board
Are you ready to deliver services to customers who want to unplug from their digital lives?
Management
Chicken Farmers Thought Trump Was Going to Help Them. Then His Administration Did the Opposite.
The Agriculture Department is barely enforcing regulations on big meat companies.
Oversight
Why Good Census Numbers Are Vital To Hurricane Recovery
Researchers have four reccomendations for community leaders counting on accurate statistics about their populations in the wake of natural disasters.
Pay & Benefits
TSP Seeks Fund Managers, Prepares New Withdrawal Options
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Nextgov
NSA Issues Warning to Patch Legacy Windows Systems Over ‘Wormable’ Threat
The National Security Agency is warning Microsoft Windows administrators to patch and update systems due to a new vulnerability called “BlueKeep.”
Management
Congress Scraps Provision to Restrict IRS From Competing With TurboTax
The change comes after ProPublica highlighted the deceptive marketing practices of Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, and other major tax prep companies.
Route Fifty
A Statewide Safety System for Students
Middle and high-school students in North Carolina can anonymously report safety tips by app in the coming school year as part of a partnership between the state and nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise.
Pay & Benefits
Presidential Hopeful Aims to Give Feds Faster Access to Student Loan Forgiveness
Federal employees would no longer have to wait until they had served 10 years.
Route Fifty
No More Cauliflower Rice? Louisiana Could Outlaw Certain Food Labels
State lawmakers are joining a trend in agricultural states of trying to define what foods can be marketed as milk or meat, while also banning terms like cauliflower or broccoli rice.
Management
Democrats Ramp Up Attacks on Agriculture’s Planned Office Relocations
With a site announcement imminent, lawmakers demand documents and move to block plan.
Nextgov
The President’s Office Is Hiring An App Developer
The single-award contract will cover the entire lifecycle of development and maintenance for all apps used by the Executive Office of the President.
Management
How to Get Your Micromanager Boss to Back Off
There’s one thing you need to know and three steps you can take.
Oversight
Lawmakers Want the Final Say on Air Force One Paint Job
A House panel has drafted legislation that would require congressional approval if Trump wants to change the Kennedy-era livery.
Management
Labor Authority Chairwoman Defends Decisions to Decertify Union, Close Regional Offices
Democratic lawmakers blasted decisions that overturned decades of agency precedent, and suggested Federal Labor Relations Authority Chairwoman Colleen Duffy Kiko was untruthful in her testimony.
Management