All posts tagged "Federal Employees"

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  Biden to promote diversity and union rights in federal workforce

  President-elect Biden has set out his priorities for government and the federal service, though work on the handover from Donald Trump has so far been blocked by the General Services

  • Posted November 11, 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 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
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  Most US federal staff don’t feel safe from COVID at work, survey finds

  More than 70% of US federal employees working on-site say their agencies are not doing enough to keep them safe from COVID-19, a survey conducted by the American Federation of

  • Posted August 25, 2020
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  Trump moves to restrict outsourcing of federal work

  President Donald Trump has taken further steps to prevent US government departments and agencies using foreign workers following a row with the nation’s largest utility. Heads of government departments have

  • Posted August 12, 2020
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  Federal bodies win $340bn in US corona stimulus package

  President Trump has signed into law a $2.2 trillion (€2 trillion) stimulus package aimed at propping up the US economy amid the coronavirus crisis. The unprecedented cash injection includes $340bn

  • Posted March 31, 2020
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  US agencies tackle employees’ opioid use

  Several US government agencies are implementing new policies that would enable them to keep tabs on their employees’ opioid use, even in cases where the painkillers are prescribed legally. Government

  • Posted December 3, 2019
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  US Office of Personnel Management pushes for easier federal dismissal

  US agencies have been tasked with eliminating “unnecessary barriers to addressing poor performance” by March 2020, in a move that would make it easier to fire federal employees. In a

  • Posted October 1, 2019
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  Federal CFOs warn presidential transition may disrupt reform plans

  Federal civil service chief financial officers (CFOs) in the US have spoken of their concerns over the possible abandonment of key management initiatives in the imminent transition to a new

  • Posted December 9, 2016
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  Trump’s Cabinet unfolds amid rumour and turmoil

  Donald Trump’s Cabinet-appointment dramas have continued over Thanksgiving weekend, with the president-elect’s top advisor, Kellyanne Conway, acknowledging a grassroots outcry against the possible appointment of Mitt Romney as secretary of

  • Posted November 28, 2016
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