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"I want to ensure that we are using our in-person time to meaningfully facilitate the kind of collaboration, innovation and team building required to unleash the full power of the department"—Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su in email to employees, obtained by @FederalNewsNet (2/2)
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Well, this seems to be the week of agency return-to-office announcements: The Labor Department sent an email to staff today announcing at least 5 days per pay period in the office for SES members, SL employees, Schedule C employees, managers & supervisors, starting Oct. 22. (1/2)
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When it rains, it pours: The Education Department has announced senior executives, managers and supervisors will return to the office at least 4 days per pay period this fall. In-office schedule for bargaining unit employees is TBD until negotiations are complete. @FederalNewsNet
NEWS: The State Department has become one of the latest agencies to announce return-to-office plans for its employees. (1/2)
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"We’ll continue to make decisions about telework eligibility based on individual positions and circumstances ... Most full-time employees will physically be in the office 3-4 times per week." -- Secretary Antony Blinken in an email to employees, obtained by @FederalNewsNet (2/2)
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NEWS: The State Department has become one of the latest agencies to announce return-to-office plans for its employees. (1/2)
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Today is the deadline for President Biden to submit an alternative pay plan to Congress for a 2024 federal pay raise — @FederalNewsNet will have the details, so stay tuned!
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Several thousand Postal Service rural carriers have expressed an interest in leaving their union, after most of them saw pay cuts under a new pay system. https://t.co/gp5JA1GmCv
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Several thousand Postal Service rural carriers have expressed an interest in leaving their union, after most of them saw pay cuts under a new pay system.
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CISA reports that its first ever cybersecurity shared services offering is off to a hot start. https://t.co/MY7sxV6mU9
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CISA reports that its first ever cybersecurity shared services offering is off to a hot start.
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Federal agencies and their watchdogs are still getting to the bottom of the total amount of fraud across more than $5 trillion in COVID-19 emergency spending, but the Labor Department is uncovering a major source of those misspent funds. https://t.co/5fVurAhm5E
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A Labor Department report underscores how pandemic-era programs that didn't verify the eligibility of applicants were exploited by fraudsters.
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A federal union’s calls for collective bargaining over diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) at the Environmental Protection Agency are getting support in Congress. https://t.co/DmUy3OjZZH
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Some of the article’s proposed pilot projects include installing gender-neutral bathrooms, implementing DEIA training for EPA employees and diversifying hiring panels.
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There’s never enough time to fix everything. The initiative needs more time to bake. The law, policy or regulation will take time to implement and show results. When it comes to cybersecurity, time isn’t on our side. https://t.co/8EG4R8P0J9
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After almost five years, the Office of Management and Budget is close to issuing new guidance for how agencies should implement the 21st Century IDEA Act, while the transition to EIS will take longer...
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But as part of a concerted effort to improve user experience, the service has shown it’s possible to cut those maddening daily waits to only about 30 seconds. https://t.co/B7zZrmm9uB
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In pilot projects, relatively-straightforward software changes have let Navy computers boot as much as 18 times faster than they did before. Officials say they want to deploy what they've learned as...
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If a new House bill ends up becoming law, federal contractors would have to adopt policies for accepting vulnerability information from security researchers as well. https://t.co/WRCv8A2CYK
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Vulnerability disclosure has proliferated across federal agencies in recent years. A new House bill would make them mandatory for contractors, too.
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LGBTQ+ individuals, as well as single individuals, enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program have “unnecessary barriers and costs” to accessing the program’s full range of health benefits, a group of House Democrats has said. https://t.co/2jhKON1DDr
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A group of Democrat lawmakers urges OPM to immediately update its definition of infertility, ahead of new requirements for FEHB carriers in 2024.
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The report, released Monday by the Defense Management Institute, a DoD-affiliated nonprofit think tank, found the position lacked well-defined boundaries and never got the full support of senior leadership. https://t.co/Q7vSFfQCRM
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Without a chief management officer, the Pentagon’s efforts for future business management should include enough authority and resources to succeed.
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The National Security Agency and other intelligence components across the Defense Department can now offer higher pay for cyber and other technical roles under a new system quietly approved earlier this year. https://t.co/0ozIxFDZdF
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The new supplemental pay rates are expected to help the NSA and other defense intelligence components compete with the private sector.
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Like many agencies, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board is more aware of their enterprise risks than ever before. https://t.co/M2kf2EjF0i
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With many agencies’ return-to-office plans taking effect as early as next month, the Office of Personnel Management is making a few clarifications on when hours traveling to and from the office count as hours worked in a day for federal employees. https://t.co/gACXQVmEtV
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The new guidance from OPM is meant to help agencies and employees understand when travel time counts as hours of work, versus commute hours, for both teleworkers and remote workers.
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The speed of software innovation in industry has the Defense Department struggling to keep its policies on pace with what the commercial sector can provide. https://t.co/2mRgvcoQV1
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The Army’s new CIO wants to codify regulations for new software and data capabilities as he plans for new data platform contracts next year.
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Several thousand Postal Service rural carriers say they’re in favor of decertifying their union, after USPS implemented a new pay system that led to significant pay cuts for two-thirds of the rural carrier workforce. https://t.co/0nrWR5l1bK
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A grassroots network of rural carriers across the country is collecting signatures from their coworkers, in the hopes of joining a new, non-postal union.
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