Trump delivers a speech in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. in Aug. 2018 (Image credit: Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.com)
Just 14 out of hundreds of eligible agencies and departments provided any written response to a Trump-era executive order establishing a new category of the civil service called Schedule F meant to encompass a range of policy-related and supervisory roles, according to documents obtained by FCW under the Freedom of Information Act.
The executive order, released in October 2020, tasked agencies with compiling preliminary lists of positions to be reclassified under Schedule F by Jan. 19, 2021, just one day before the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Biden revoked the executive order on Jan. 22.
By Natalie Alms
Rep. Hice with Georgia Army National Guardsmen and families in 2018 (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class R.J. Lannom Jr.)
Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, wants to know when feds will go back in the office.
In a May 18 letter to Kathleen McGettigan, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, Hice said it was time for federal employees to go back to the workplace to the fullest possible degree. He pointed to recent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that fully vaccinated people do not need to wear masks in most indoor and outdoor locations and to rising vaccination rates.
Life insurance: why many female feds probably don’t have enough Shelly Giuliano, Government Employees Benefit Association 2 days ago There are a number of reasons why having adequate coverage may be especially crucial for female members of the federal workforce. (designer491) In two of the pandemic’s most hard-hitting impacts, more than 900,000 Americans have died from the virus and nearly 10 million jobs were lost in 2020. Thankfully, COVID cases are finally falling, jobs numbers are climbing, and the only interruption to their work that most federal employees experienced involved the transition from office to home. Yet still, these numbers should serve to remind us of how impactful the sudden loss of our income could be and how important it is to protect our families from as much uncertainty as possible with the right type and amount of life insurance.
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Neera Tanden, whose nomination to lead the
Office of Management and Budget was scuttled in the face of intense political opposition, has joined the Biden administration as a senior White House advisor. According to press reports, Tanden will lead a review of the
U.S. Digital Service as part of her new job. The
Defense Information Systems Agency delivered its initial zero trust reference architecture, the agency announced last week.
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