Search results for ""executive order""
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Biden promises feds a 2.7% pay rise next year
Plans to increase the pay of US federal civilian employees by an average of 2.7% in 2022 have been formally presented to Congress by President Joe Biden. In a letter
- Posted September 1, 2021
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US agencies tasked with annual diversity reporting in new Biden order
President Biden has signed a new executive order aimed at removing the multiple workplace barriers faced by US federal employees from disadvantaged communities, with the aspiration of turning government administration
- Posted July 1, 2021
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Role reversal: Biden rolls back Trump’s civil service directives
US President Joe Biden has used his first days in office to reset relations with federal professionals, reversing a number of executive orders issued by his predecessor Donald Trump that
- Posted January 26, 2021
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Biden rolls back Trump’s clampdown on diversity training
Within hours of becoming US president yesterday, Joe Biden signed an executive order to rescind his predecessor Donald Trump’s ban on government contractors providing some forms of diversity training. Biden’s new order
- Posted January 21, 2021
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About turn: what Biden’s presidency means for federal staff
As Donald Trump faces his last day in the White House, US civil servants are preparing for a new administration and a very different style of government. We ask three
- Posted January 19, 2021
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Trump must be held to account, say US diplomats
American diplomats have drafted two cables criticising Donald Trump for inciting last week’s attack on the Capitol building, and calling for the president to be held to account over the
- Posted January 11, 2021
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UK government follows US with ban on unconscious bias training
The UK government is phasing out unconscious bias training for civil servants and encouraging all public sector bodies to follow suit, in a move that echoes a similar decision by
- Posted December 16, 2020
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Plans to break up US federal HR agency abandoned
The Trump administration’s plan to merge the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) with the General Services Administration (GSA), giving the White House much greater control of federal HR policies, has
- Posted November 2, 2020
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Trump’s salaries adviser quits over politicising order
The lifelong Republican appointed by Donald Trump to oversee federal civil service salaries has quit his post in protest at the US president’s new executive order that could remove employment protection
- Posted October 27, 2020
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Trump moves to extend hire-and-fire powers over civil service
Donald Trump issued an executive order last week that could remove employment protection rights for tens of thousands of federal employees, giving the president powers to hire and fire a
- Posted October 26, 2020
