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The National Academy of Public Administration s congressionally mandated report on Office of Personnel Management concludes that the federal human resources agency should remain independent.
The report was ordered in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act at the behest of House Democrats who had thwarted the Trump administration s plan to merge OPM into the General Service Administration and wanted a top-down look at the functioning of the agency. OPM as we know it today really needs to rebuild staff capacity, encourage innovation and adopt a more data-driven, accountable and forward looking human capital management approach, NAPA president and CEO Terry Gerton said on a Wednesday call with reporters.
When DC feds could get the COVID vaccine March 15 The seat of the federal government released a new timeline for when federal employees and postal workers in that area will be vaccinated. (U.S. Air Force photo by Joshua J. Seybert) Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser released an updated vaccination timeline March 15 that outlines when, among other essential professions, federal government and Postal Service employees can expect to become eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine. According to the documents released Monday, U.S. Postal Service employees are eligible as of this week to receive vaccines in D.C., along with essential employees in health, human and social services organizations, staff working in the court system and local government employees.
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An employee advocacy group is accusing the Biden administration of failing to follow through on its promise to reverse a Trump-era initiative aimed at making it easier to fire federal workers, instead using the nullified policy to dismiss a whistleblower.
Walter Loewen, a planning and environmental coordinator at the Bureau of Land Management, is facing a proposed removal after the agency said he performed inadequately. The dismissal, which is pending a final signoff from BLM management, follows Loewen raising concerns about a large and controversial oil and gas project on 1.5 million acres of federal land in Wyoming. Loewen and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the group representing him, said that timing is not a coincidence. Then-Interior Secretary David Bernhardt gave the project final approval just weeks before Presiden
Essential federal employees will be eligible for vaccines in the District of Columbia next month.
Employees are considered essential if they can t perform their job duties remotely or via telework and have to report to work in-person during the pandemic, according to guidance released by the District on Monday. The Phase 1C Tier 3 that covers them will open up the week of April 12. This week, employees at the Postal Service also became eligible in the district.
That expansion, however, won t include federal employees working in-person, but not in the city. More than 80% of federal employees live and work outside of the D.C. region, including many employees working in-person at the Internal Revenue Service, said Tony Reardon, national president of the National Treasury Employees Union.
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Adjanni Ramos WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, March 16, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ Former White House spokesman Robert Weiner and policy analyst Adjanni Ramos argue in an op-ed just published in OpEdNews and ranked H1 as the #1 op-ed in the country, that the REAL-ID in place by many already and required by October to board a plane, opens itself up to major hacking and privacy violations. They ask, “How can it be safe to Xerox and put in universally accessible-to-DMV-employees files a copy of basically four of these: your birth certificate, passport, unemployment, social security number, residency proof, driver’s license or registration, auto insurance proof, utility bill, W-2, tax record, lease agreement, marriage certificate, a DL-32 (concerning gender change), and more? Just Xerox those into DMV files and be required to share those with other states?