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“Our dedicated federal workers help keep our government running, protect our national security, and provide essential services to Americans like administering Social Security benefits,” said Kaine.
A new policy is due out next month that will allow single troops, unmarried couples and any service members using donor sperm or eggs to have their treatment covered.
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BREAKING 🚨 The Biden administration said it is ending immunization requirements for millions of federal employees, contractors and international air travelers.
🚨 💰 Millions of federal employees will receive an average 5.2% pay raise effective January, thanks to an executive order issued by the President on Thursday.
🧵In less than 2 weeks, the current stopgap bill keeping the government open expires, leaving millions of fed employees and contractors facing the risk of a shutdown that could stall paychecks and shutter offices. Here's where things stand, plus answers to shutdown-related FAQs.
As MSPB precedent that you may not have heard about, but that doubles down on protecting veteran federal employees from harassment on the job. We break it down.
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An unbearably cute pair of giant pandas will once again come stateside to capture the hearts of visitors to the National Zoo. 🐼 These "envoys of friendship" between the U.S. and China have long been a fixture of the oft-fraught relationship.
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The Department of Defense, which spent more $600 million on prototyping 5G at initial sites in 2020, has at least a dozen projects being tested at installations for smart warehousing, virtual reality training and remote engineering.
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The Defense Innovation Board, which advises top Pentagon leaders on commercial sector innovation, called the web of regulations a “massive spaghetti code.”
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's office in response to the basketball challenge between him and
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The results are in! Of those who left their government job, more than a third said the ability to work to telework was the deciding factor. Another 30% said it weighed heavily in the decision.
Federal employees have taken to online forums and support groups to lament another year of federal benefits that they say scantly provide for infertility.
(3/) And for a brief status update from
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' Leo Shane: With an Oct. 1 shutdown looming, House Republican leaders failed to pass their $826-billion defense bill for a third time in two weeks.
The Senate advanced a bill that would require participation by C-suite feds in setting IT performance plans for agencies, all in the name of modernization.
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Thousands of federal government officials across the executive branch reported owning or trading stocks that stood to rise or fall with decisions made by their agencies, a Wall Street Journal investigation found.
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🧵 Congress has five days to pass some kind of budget measure, whether long term or temporary, to avert a government
#shutdown
.
The workforce is bracing for the possibility, with employees at risk of delayed paychecks or stop-work orders. So, here's feds should to know. ⬇️