All posts tagged "Office of Management and Budget"

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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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  Challenges to US election are ‘anti-democratic’, says former Republican House Speaker

  Republican legislators’ attempts to challenge states’ electoral college votes are “anti-democratic and anti-conservative”, former Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has said, arguing that attempts to “sow doubt about

  • Posted January 5, 2021
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  Who’s who? Joe Biden names economic, comms and HR chiefs

  President-elect Joe Biden this week named his preferred economic and communications chiefs – unveiling a diverse team whose confirmation would shatter a number of glass ceilings – along with other

  • Posted December 3, 2020
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  Trump clamps down on diversity training

  President Trump has issued an executive order banning government contractors from providing employees with certain forms of diversity training. The order forbids what it calls “divisive concepts”, such as training

  • Posted October 5, 2020
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  US federal CIO signals long-term shift away from face-to-face meetings

  US federal bodies are likely to redesign their “physical footprint” in the light of COVID-19, the federal chief information officer of the United States has said, arguing that “in the

  • Posted May 26, 2020
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  US government agencies to begin “phased transition” to normal working operations

  The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has published a notice stating that the federal government will begin a “phased transition” to normal working operations, in line with guidelines unveiled

  • Posted May 12, 2020
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  White House requests $46bn emergency funding package for federal agencies

  The White House has requested US$46bn (€43bn) in emergency funding for federal agencies in response to the coronavirus pandemic. If approved, most of the funding would go towards medical treatment

  • Posted March 25, 2020
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  US agencies urged to expand telework as corona spreads

  The White House has recommended that federal agencies allow more employees to work remotely, in a bid to mitigate the risks posed by the coronavirus, COVID-19.   In a memo

  • Posted March 16, 2020
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  Driving digital: the challenge of building tech skills – and the solutions

  Competing with businesses to recruit in tech jobs markets, many governments struggle to develop the capabilities for digital delivery. At the Government Digital Summit, senior leaders from 16 countries swapped

  • Posted February 26, 2020
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  Trump proposes 1% federal pay rise as US budget published

  President Trump has submitted a plan to Congress for all federal workers to receive a 1% pay rise, effective from 1 January 2021. While this is an improvement on the

  • Posted February 11, 2020
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