Workforce
New NTEU president scolds GOP over telework, anti-worker rhetoric
The recently elected union leader said labor groups need to do more to educate the public on how federal workers benefit their lives.
Workforce
Regulations aimed at derailing a Schedule F revival proposed by OPM
An effort to insulate the federal workforce from future efforts to strip them of their removal protections could accelerate an “existential” debate over the nonpartisan civil service system, experts said.
Workforce
Deconstructing the administrative state: At what cost?
COMMENTARY | Americans should be frightened by the prospect of a return to the spoils system, argue two scholars.
Workforce
GOP presidential candidate promises ‘large-scale, mass layoffs’ across government
Republican hopeful pledges to eliminate 1.5M federal jobs in first term.
Workforce
EEOC: ‘Ban the box’ policies are effective at federal agencies, but the government needs to raise awareness
In instances where a federal job applicant had a criminal record, the background check process only ruled them out over past criminal conduct 2% of the time, but many may still see their past as a barrier to joining the federal workforce.
Workforce
Retiring NTEU president reflects on three decades in organized labor
Tony Reardon on Thursday handed the reins of the National Treasury Employees Union to newly elected national president Doreen Greenwald.
Workforce
Measure to hasten firing of VA employees advances
The Biden administration has warned the new procedures are unnecessary and would only complicate the disciplinary process.
Workforce
Want successful integration of AI at federal agencies? Engage employees through the unions
COMMENTARY | AI will bring dramatic, disruptive, productive changes that can improve how the work of government is carried out over the next 10 years. To prepare for it, organizations will need to learn together and plan together.
Workforce
Sen. Kaine revives effort to ban Schedule F through the defense policy bill
This marks the second straight year that the Virginia Democrat has sought to attach a measure requiring congressional approval for new federal job classifications to the National Defense Authorization Act.
Workforce
Biden administration to Congress: Don't give us more authority to fire people
Legal hurdles to already failed approaches would only complicate the disciplinary process, officials say.
Pay & Benefits
House GOP plan to curb fed pay and benefits would come at a cost, experts say
Morale, recruitment and retention are likely to take a hit, and there are better ways to save money.
Workforce
Court opens up more discretion for reducing feds’ punishments
Federal employees facing firings will have an easier time mitigating that discipline to a lower form of punishment under new precedent.
Workforce
Feeling alone? Try a job share
COMMENTARY | Two former State Department job-sharers reflect on their experience serving the mission of the department and each other.
Management
Biden looks to swap leadership at civil service watchdog agencies
White House nominates a Trump appointee for a new role overseeing enforcement of civil service laws.
Workforce
DeSantis pledges to eliminate agencies and slash the federal workforce, following a long line of recent GOP candidates
Florida governor and presidential candidate says his administration would "fundamentally reshape Washington."
Workforce
Schedule F architects say the plan’s critics are ‘hyperbolic’
Officials behind the Trump administration’s abortive effort to strip tens of thousands of federal workers in policy positions of their civil service protections called concerns of politicization overblown, but espoused making all federal employees at-will.
Workforce
Republican leaders take another shot at easing the firing process for VA workers
Previous efforts to speed up firing at VA have fallen flat, but lawmakers are launching a new, bipartisan effort.
Workforce
Meet the long-shot presidential candidate who wants term limits for federal employees
Vivek Ramaswamy also pledges to eliminate unions, move workers out of Washington and end “pro-lazy” remote work.
Workforce
Fewer Federal Employees Are Reporting Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
At some agencies, the rates of harassment remain high.
Workforce
Bringing Federal Retirees Back Might Do More Harm Than Good. Here’s Why.
COMMENTARY | There are better ways to build, sustain and grow the federal workforce long-term than rehiring those who have already left it, one writer argues.
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