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New bill aims to lift union restrictions at the VA March 16 Medical staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs would have expanded union protections under legislation introduced in the House and Senate. (Leo Shane III/Staff) Medical staff working at Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare facilities would have greater collective bargaining protections when it comes to patient care, under legislation introduced in the House and Senate March 16. The VA Employee Fairness Act of 2021, introduced by Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., and Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, aims to remove certain provisions of U.S. Code that prohibit collective bargaining on professional conduct or competence, peer review and adjustments to employee compensation.
Federal employee protections included in new COVID relief bill March 10 Federal employees exposed to or dealing with the fallout from COVID-19 will have more options under the just-passed legislation. (J. Scott Applewhite, File/AP) Federal employees received specific carve-outs in the COVID-19 legislation that Congress sent to the president’s desk Wednesday, including those that protect employees in the case of COVID-related illness or emergency. The legislation would mandate an automatic presumption of workplace illness for federal employees that currently work on the front lines and fall sick with COVID-19. Such automatic presumptions make it easier for employees or their survivors to receive workers compensation.
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email House Democrats Join Chorus Calling for Changes at Social Security
The job security of the Trump-appointed administrator and deputy administrator of the Social Security Administration remains in doubt, as the Biden administration continues to oust holdover appointees elsewhere in the government.
A group of senior House Democrats last week joined colleagues in the Senate as well as labor and advocacy groups in calling for President Biden to oust the leaders of the Social Security Administration over their perceived hostility toward the agency’s mission and workforce.
OPM begins reversal of Trump’s workforce orders March 5 The Office of Personnel Management s guidance instructs agencies to undo ongoing and already-enacted agreements made under President Donald Trump s orders. (Antonio Guillem/Getty Images) Federal agencies will have to withdraw or undo all ongoing and completed actions they took over the past three years to implement then-President Donald Trump’s anti-union and workforce restructuring executive orders, according to guidance issued by the Office of Personnel Management Friday. President Joe Biden signed an executive order just two days after taking office rescinding four of his predecessor’s orders that restricted collective bargaining, cut down official time, made federal employees easier to fire and removed some federal positions from civil service protections. Biden’s order relied on OPM to issue specific guidance on how to go about undoing the previous orders.