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email OPM Waives Premium Pay Cap for Border Detailees
The federal government’s HR agency declared that the influx of children at the southern border is an emergency for the purposes of waiving restrictions on how much premium pay federal employees can earn.
The Office of Personnel Management announced Thursday that it will waive the normal biweekly cap on premium pay for federal employees working along the southern border to help process the increased number of unaccompanied children arriving there.
In March, the Biden administration called on federal workers across government to volunteer for four-month assignments to help the Health and Human Services Department as it struggles to handle the influx of migrants.
OPM nominee promises new direction on performance management 4 hours ago Kiran Ahuja, the nominee to lead the Office of Personnel Management under the Biden administration, envisions helping managers as the solution to addressing poor performance. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) The Trump administration drew significant controversy for several of its proposals to address poor performers in the workforce by making federal employees easier to fire, but President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Office of Personnel Management has an opposite approach for improving performance. “What I have seen in most cases in executive roles is that oftentimes poor performance shows up because of lack of employee engagement, or a mismatch of talents and skills for that position, or there just isn’t really clear metrics for those performance evaluations,” said nominee Kiran Ahuja at an April 22 Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing.
Biden tests political climate at home and abroad: The Note
Biden and Harris speak on Derek Chauvin verdict
Replay Video It s a grand moment for global leadership assuming the audiences at home and abroad are looking for it. President Joe Biden faces perhaps his biggest test yet on the international stage with the two-day climate summit that begins on Thursday, a mostly virtual gathering organized by the White House to coincide with Earth Day. Biden s message to the world is a reassertion of American leadership to address climate change. He faces expected skepticism from familiar corners China, Russia and swaths of the developing world with the European Union jostling for primacy, and scrutiny on U.S. allies including Canada and Japan.
claimants challenging the appointment of administrative law judges.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (CN) The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Social Security applicants who challenge the appointment of administrative law judges are not required to first bring those claims to the agency before taking their case to court.
The six individuals who brought the consolidated suit were denied disability benefits by the Social Security Administration. While they appealed the denials, the Supreme Court ruled in 2018 in
Lucia v. Securities Exchange Commission that administrative law judges were improperly appointed to the SEC.
After that decision, the Social Security petitioners argued the administrative law judges handling their cases were not properly appointed violating the Constitution’s appointments clause – and they should have the opportunity to raise the issue in federal court.
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