Although it is unclear how plan breaks out between locality pay and across-the-board increases, the topline number matches the president's proposed pay .
A Trump executive order rolling back requirements for labor-management relations forums is under review, according to new guidance from the Office of Personnel Management.
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President Biden is hoping to add more teeth to scientific integrity policies across government.
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The White House on Friday held its first task force meeting to develop strategies for empowering career federal scientists, including through identifying incidents of interference in previous administrations.
Several dozen scientists from across government attended the inaugural gathering of the Scientific Integrity Task Force, which President Biden created shortly after taking office. Headed by the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, Biden launched the panel to combat political interference in the scientific work by federal agencies’ career employees. In addition to reviewing each agency’s policy for protecting against interference, the task force will examine what went wrong in recent years.
Committee passes bill requiring employee safety plans prior to reopening 6 hours ago Federal agencies would be required to communicate comprehensive plans to all employees within 60 days of the bill s passage. (JaruekChairak/Getty Images) Federal agencies would be required to publish comprehensive employee safety plans prior to instituting return-to-work efforts under legislation reported favorably by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee May 13. The bill, named the Chai Suthammanont Remembrance Act after a food service worker at a childcare facility at Quantico that died of COVID-19, would give agencies 60 days to publish a plan for how they intend to address personal protective equipment, testing, contract tracing and other safety procedures for any of their covered worksites.