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Bill to pay furloughed DoT workers is law
Senate passes and President signs the bill to make up for two days of lost pay for almost 2,000 Transportation employees.
Tags: Pay & Benefits , AFGE , Furloughed workers , Highway Trust Fund
White House ready to reveal identity management plans
OMB will issue a new memo on HSPD-12 in the coming weeks. Agencies are feeling more pressure to meet the secure identity card requirements. Administration is also closer to finalizing new strategy for securing online transactions.
Tags: technology , Paul Grant , Mike Butler , DoD , VA , SBA , Interagency Smart Card Advisory Board , OMB , CIO Council , Committee on National Security Systems , TechStat , HSPD-12 , Secure identity , Identity, credential and access management , Secure online transactions strategy
Inside Government - March 5th, 2010
Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska)
U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)
Sgt. Kim Munley and Sgt. Mark Todd
Antonyio Johnson
President, AFGE Department of Transportation (DOT) Local 3313
AFGE Defense Conference (DEFCON) Chair Don Hale and Vice Chair Patty Viers
Tags: Pay & Benefits , Inside Government , AFGE , healthcare , Defcon
House passes bill to pay furloughed DoT workers
About 2,000 workers need back pay from the two days the agency didn't have funds. If the bill is not passed this week, those employees could see a 20 percent pay cut in their next paycheck.
Tags: pay and benefits , Gerry Connolly , Highway Trust Fund
Furloughs hit NHTSA hard
Two thousand federal transportation workers have the day off without pay. And the Obama administration says they should blame Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning. Bunning blocked passage of legislation last week that would have extended federal highway and transit programs that expired at midnight.
Tags: Transportation , AFGE , furlough , P&B , Antonyio Johnson
Hill impasse spells more furloughs for DoT workers
Thousands of Transportation Department staffers here in Washington and across the country face another day of furloughs today, and possibly the rest of the week. It's all because of a legislative stalemate in the United States Senate.
Tags: P&B , U.S. Senate , Dick Durbin , Jim Bunning , Transportation , Federal Highway Traffic Safety Administration , furloughs , Max Cacas
House passage of Senate jobs bill would end DoT furloughs
Senate also considering separate extension bill that would end furloughs, but Sen. Bunning has put hold on it. Transportation furloughs 2,000 employees and stops 41 major construction projects because it doesn't have funding.
Tags: pay and benefits , Ray Lahood , Nancy Pelosi , Harry Reid , Frank Lautenberg , James Oberstar , Richard Durbin , Jim Bunning , House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee , Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Commit , employee furloughs
DoT bureaus offer advice to furloughed feds
Some employees are expected to come to work for at least part of the day, while others are being furloughed and are told to stay home until further notice, without pay. In continuing coverage of a story you read here first late Friday, FederalNewsRadio.com finds each Transportation bureau has a hotline employees should call for updates.
Tags: P&B , Federal Highway Administration , Motor Carrier Safety Administration , National Highway Transportation Safety Administrat , NHTSA , Research and Innovative Technology Administration , Jim Bunning , Furlough employees , Federal highway and transit funds
Feds generous despite economic slump
CFC is the world's largest and most successful annual workplace charity campaign, with more than 300 CFC campaigns throughout the country and internationally to help to raise millions of dollars each year.
Tags: P&B , CFC , OPM , Linda Washington ,
OIRA head Cass Sunstein is rethinking the mindset of regulation
Many federal government watchers think the former Harvard Law Professor has turned OIRA into a 'living laboratory' for writing government regulations based on behavioral economics.
Tags: management , Cass Sunstein , OIRA , OMB , Peter Orszag , Ray Lahood , American University's Washington College of Law , President Obama , Max Cacas , American University
