All posts tagged "Unions"

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  US Office of Personnel Management uses live polling for staff meetings; UK unions vow to fight anti-strike law: management & workforce news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. US Office of Personnel Management introduces live polling to staff meetings in bid to

  • Posted January 12, 2023
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  Biden’s management agenda prioritises federal employee engagement

  The Biden administration plans to prioritise increasing young talent within the federal government and give employees more powers through their unions, according to the President’s Management Agenda. The agenda document,

  • Posted November 24, 2021
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  Brazil’s public sector reform bill advances through congress

  A bill that aims to shrink the state by cutting public sector pay and benefits has passed the committee stage in Brazil’s lower chamber of congress. The constitutional amendment –

  • Posted September 27, 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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  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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  UK abandons redundancy cap following legal challenges

  The UK government has repealed new regulations that limited exit payments for departing public sector staff to £95,000 (US$132,000), after its policy was challenged in the courts by unions and

  • Posted February 15, 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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  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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  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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  UK unions resist ‘back to work’ push

  UK civil service unions are challenging the government’s policy of pulling home-working staff back into their offices, with leaders suggesting that it is more interested in restoring city centre economies

  • Posted July 29, 2020
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