All posts tagged "Joe Biden"

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  Biden urges US agencies to ‘restore integrity’ of federal watchdogs after Trump attacks

  The White House has issued updated guidance to heads of US federal departments and executive agencies urging them to better co-operate better with watchdogs. In a memorandum published earlier this

  • Posted December 12, 2021
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  Commerce and transportation departments top US federal vaccine mandate table

  Data released by the US Office of Management and Budget has revealed 96.5% compliance with President Joe Biden’s mandate for federal employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19, with the Department

  • Posted November 30, 2021
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  Union demands action against US inspector general in telework spying row

  President Biden is being urged to take action against the inspector general of the Social Security Administration after a row between Gail Ennis and a union over telework monitoring led

  • Posted October 22, 2021
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  Internet freedom in sharp decline, watchdog warns

  A lack of regulation and a rise in authoritarian government control has led to an “unprecedented assault on free expression online”, with global internet freedom declining for the eleventh consecutive

  • Posted September 24, 2021
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  Biden mandates vaccines for all feds and demands corporates follow suit

  President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that mandates all US federal workers and government contractors must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or face disciplinary action. He also announced plans

  • Posted September 13, 2021
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  New US office to protect health from climate threats

  The US federal government has set up a new office to tackle the impact of climate change on public health across the country. The Office of Climate Change and Health

  • Posted September 5, 2021
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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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  We’re all teleworkers now: flexible working policies in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia

  As social distancing rules are relaxed, will civil servants be drawn back into the office? Pablo Jimenez Arandia examines the emerging policies on flexible working in four big countries and

  • Posted August 31, 2021
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  Union welcomes Biden’s picks for labour relations panel

  The Biden administration has proposed the appointment of academics, union lawyers, mediators and a former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board to serve on an arbitration panel for labour-management

  • Posted August 27, 2021
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  Aye of the needle: overcoming vaccine hesitancy

  To end the pandemic, governments must persuade the vast majority of adults to get vaccinated – but apathy, health fears and conspiracy theories are holding down vaccination rates. Liz Heron

  • Posted August 26, 2021
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