Agencies may set their own limits on how many federal employees can return to the office beginning next month, and in the meantime, the federal governme.
Proposed legislation would prevent hourly wage employees from receiving a different locality pay adjustment than salaried employees working in the same location.
COVID, a border crisis, now hurricane season: Is FEMA ready?
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WASHINGTON As thousands of workers with the Federal Emergency Management Agency respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and the border crisis, staffing is at record lows.
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Atlantic hurricane season starts June 1; expected to be active
FEMA normally uses the run-up to the season to get briefings, conduct disaster exercises
Recent numbers show FEMA is spread thin because of vaccine response, border crisis
That is leading to growing concerns the agency may be stretched too thin, ahead of what forecasters say is expected to be a very active Hurricane season.
Have the DoD’s special hiring practices hurt more than helped? May 6 The union representing many Department of Defense employees argues that special hiring authorities are the reason the agency struggles to fill out its workforce. (pepifoto) The Department of Defense has dozens of civilian hiring authorities at its disposal, some unique only to that agency, in order to bring on the best and most flexible talent in service of the nation’s defense. But according to the union that represents approximately 300,000 employees at the agency, it is those very hiring authorities that have caused the DoD to struggle in finding and keeping enough talent in key areas like STEM, acquisition, financial management, cyber, artificial intelligence and foreign language skills.