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Workforce
House Panel Advances Bill to Extend TSA Employees the Same Pay System and Workplace Protections as Other Feds
The Rights of the TSA Workforce Act would apply Title 5 protections and the General Schedule pay scale to employees at the Transportation Security Administration.
Workforce
Biden Announces Vaccine-or-Masks Mandate for Feds, Some Contractors
Federal employees will have a choice: get vaccinated, or wear masks when indoors at federal facilities and subject themselves to regular COVID-19 testing.
Workforce
OMB Reinstitutes Mask Mandate in ‘High Transmission’ Regions, Including D.C.
The return of masking requirements at federal facilities comes amid concerns about the COVID-19 Delta variant.
Workforce
OPM Wants to See More Telework, Remote Work and ‘Maxiflex’ Schedules Post-COVID
Guidance published late last week promotes telework and other flexibilities as retention and recruitment tools.
Workforce
Unions Call on Biden to Name New Labor Board Appointees
More than six months into his administration, President Biden has yet to nominate a second Democrat to the Federal Labor Relations Authority, while the Federal Service Impasses Panel sits vacant.
Workforce
House Panel Advances Bill to Undo Trump Order on Administrative Law Judges
A bill working its way through Congress would restore the judges to the competitive civil service three years after the Trump administration gave agencies greater leeway in hiring decisions.
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Workforce
AFGE, VA Reach Settlement to 'Reset' Labor Relations
The Veterans Affairs Department has agreed to reverse actions taken to crack down on unions during the Trump administration, including compensating union officials for leave they took in the absence of official time and reimbursing the union for past office space and equipment rentals.
Pay & Benefits
TSP Signals It Will Offer Climate Friendly Options, and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Management
OPM Reclaims Human Capital Council Duties Following Failed GSA Merger
The Trump administration had moved the Chief Human Capital Officers Council’s staff from OPM to GSA shortly before Congress blocked the controversial plan to merge the agencies.
Pay & Benefits
House Panel Advances Bill Providing Feds Paid Family Leave
Republicans question the methodology of a last-minute preliminary study by the Congressional Budget Office, despite the fact that CBO does not do full reports until bills are sent to the House floor.
Oversight
GAO: Coast Guard Can Do More to Monitor Telework Use
Early in the pandemic, the service suffered from inadequate bandwidth and a laptop shortage, although those issues were alleviated by summer 2020.
Pay & Benefits
GPO To Offer Full-Time Telework After COVID
Around one-third of the agency’s 1,500 employees will be able to work entirely remotely, and officials said some will be able to move out of the Washington, D.C., area.
Workforce
House Spending Bill Pushes Social Security to Reverse Trump-era Workforce Changes
Language accompanying the bill orders a report by the end of 2021 on telework, and urges the agency to reverse actions that undercut the independence of administrative law judges.
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Pay & Benefits
Union Urges Further Action to Improve Firefighter Pay
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Management
FLRA Narrows Labor’s Ability to Litigate Bargaining Disputes
In a controversial 2-1 decision, Republican appointees ruled that unions cannot seek relief for alleged unfair labor practices that arise during contract negotiations if they have already sought redress for separate violations during the same bargaining process.
Oversight
OPM Has Improved on Several Key Management Issues, Watchdog Finds
GAO lauded OPM’s efforts to reform performance management processes and provide better data to agencies, although 14 recommendations remain unresolved.
Management
Biden Ousts Trump Holdovers from Social Security Administration
Removal of the agency’s leadership follows a Supreme Court decision finding that laws barring a president from firing political appointees without cause are unconstitutional.
Pay & Benefits
More than 900 Social Security Employees Received Partial Paychecks, And Some Got Too Much
A union representing employees impacted by a payroll processing error has filed a grievance on their behalf demanding backpay and interest for any money that wasn’t paid to workers on time.
Pay & Benefits