Management
Career Employees Allege EPA Leaders Silenced Them on Key Deregulation Effort
Two offices will review the allegations for potential further investigation and discipline.
Pay & Benefits
Senate Passes Bill to Provide Higher Pay to VA Execs
Measure also prevents department from having to collect compensation it already paid out.
Pay & Benefits
Postal Service Sees More Cuts to Workforce Costs to Avoid Running Out of Money by 2024
In new strategic plan, postal management lays out a dire financial picture.
Workforce
Report: Feds Are Increasingly Interested in Leaving for Certain Private Sector Jobs
An estimated 50% pay gap in technology jobs could be a driving factor, researchers say.
Workforce
Census Is Now Fielding 25K Job Applications Per Day
Despite some early setbacks, Census says its hiring efforts will prove "swimmingly successful."
Pay & Benefits
Interior Still Threatening to Deny Incentives to Employees It Has Relocated West
Employees have already decided if they will move, but Interior says a lack of additional appropriations from Congress could block promised financial assistance.
Pay & Benefits
White House Tasks Agencies With Getting Injured Feds Back on the Job Faster
New initiative would also seek to reduce workplace injuries to decrease "the financial burden of injury on taxpayers."
Management
Bipartisan Bill Would Ease Process for Leasing and Building New VA Medical Facilities
Senators hope new staffing and less red tape would help VA stem cost overruns and delays that have plagued development of new medical centers.
Workforce
OPM Abandons Effort to Make It Easier for Feds to Transfer and Re-Enter Government
The agency had already hit key milestones in its employee digital record project.
Management
Trump Administration Makes Its Case to Break Up Immigration Judges' Union
Justice Department "simply does not want to deal with a vocal union that asserts its rights," labor group argues at hearing.
Management
As Battle Lines Are Drawn for Successor, USPS Chief Delays Retirement Indefinitely
Various Postal Service-connected organizations want their interests considered as board searches for new postmaster general.
Pay & Benefits
EPA Circumvents Bonus Caps by Awarding Vacation Days
Highest-ranked employees received the most time off, IG finds.
Management
NIH Works to Prevent Sexual Harassment Among Federally Funded Researchers
Agency has already taken some recommended steps but others will take longer, director says.
Management
Organizations Are Improperly Offering Yoga Classes and $20K Weddings in National Parks
"Learning centers" should reimburse the National Park Service for federal funds they received, auditor says.
Management
How Talking to the Elderly and Assessing Air Quality Could Help USPS Grow Revenue
The Postal Service is pursuing opportunities, but such efforts are more likely to benefit society writ large than the agency's finances.
Management
Trump Signs 2020 Spending Bills, Averting Midnight Shutdown
The $1.4 trillion measures boost funding for most agencies and provide a 3.1% pay raise to civilian feds.
Management
Senate Passes Bill to Ban VA From Signing Settlements With Doctors Fired for Medical Mistakes
A 2017 audit found VA was routinely burying mistakes made by its medical providers.
Management
Senate Sends Shutdown-Averting Spending Bills to Trump
President is expected to sign the $1.4 trillion measures that would boost funding for most agencies and provide a 3.1% pay raise to civilian feds.
Workforce
With Appeals Board Hamstrung, Congress Declines to Intervene on Behalf of Whistleblowers Facing Discipline
Inaction comes as MSPB lacks board members and many feds say impeachment proceedings have left them less likely to report wrongdoing.
Workforce