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Obama nominates Justice official to top Labor slot
Tags: Thomas Perez , Hilda Solis , DoJ , Justice , Labor , people
Labor Secretary Solis resigning
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis has told colleagues she is resigning from Obama administration. Solis, a former California congresswoman, has led the department for nearly four years, after being confirmed by the Senate in February 2009.
Tags: Hilda Solis , people , Inauguration 2013 , Barack Obama
Labor Dept. announces new tool to stem improper payments
Jane Oates, the assistant secretary of employment and training administration at DoL, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss details of the department's new program.
Tags: Jane Oates , In Depth , Francis Rose , management , improper payments
Gov't concerned people could leak jobs data
Tags: Labor , Carl Fillichio , data breach , Sandia National Laboratory
Obama bypasses Senate to fill labor board posts
President Barack Obama recess-appointed three members to the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday, bypassing fierce opposition from Republicans who claim the agency has leaned too far in favor of unions.
Tags: Congress , Senate , NLRB , Sharon Black , Terence Flynn , Richard Griffin
Tips for agencies when hiring veterans with disabilities
Agencies are increasing the number of disabled veterans in their ranks as they try to fulfill White House hiring mandates. But there's still a lot of unease about how disabled vets will fit into civilian environments. "The civilian workplace is a really bizarre place" for veterans, said workforce and diversity consultant Lisa Stern at a recent training she gave federal hiring officials in Bethesda.
Tags: hiring , workforce , disabilities , veterans , Lisa Stern , diversity , Emily Kopp
The Job Creation Two-step
Efforts to get America working, aren't.
Tags: stimulus , ARRA , USAJobs.gov , Council of Economic Advisors , Labor Department , job creation
Labor to rebalance IT workforce, modernize infrastructure
Tom Wiesner, Labor's deputy chief information officer, is working on a strategy to bring work contracted out to vendors back in-house.
March 3, 2011
Tags: Tom Wiesner , insourcing , technology , data center consolidation , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller , TIC
GSA wants Networx to move into high gear
Agency offering to help others transition to new telecommunications contract in any way possible. Only 28 percent of all agency services have moved to Networx so far.
Tags: contracting , technology , Karl Krumbholz , GSA , Energy , DOT , State , USDA , SSA , Treasury , IAC , AT&T , Verizon , Qwest , Networx , Connections , telecommunications , cybersecurity , TIC
Labor is changing to improve jobs
The budget blueprint, released Monday, would reform the Workforce Investment Act, which accounts for $10 billion of funding in the departments of Labor and Education, and supports nearly 3,000 career centers nationwide and a range of other services, the Office of Management and Budget said in a fact sheet.
Tags: mngt , Labor , Jane Oates , FY 2011 budget , budget
