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Fire shuts down Labor Dept. building
An overnight fire at the Labor Department's headquarters has shut the building down for most employees.
Tags: fire , operating status
Senate Democrats put off vote on Labor nominee
Tags: Thomas Perez , nominees , people
DHS, DoD asking OMB for sequestration reprogramming authority
Homeland Security, Defense and USDA are asking the Office of Management and Budget for the ability to reprogram agency funds to soften the blow of sequestration. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said the agency must cut $3 billion by Sept. 30 and every mission, contract and person will be impacted in some way. She said the Coast Guard already is feeling the impact of the cuts in mission areas.
Tags: budget , DHS , Janet Napolitano , DoD , Jon Etherton , Etherton and Associates , Coalition for Government Procurement , House Homeland Security Committee , cybersecurity , St. Elizabeths , DHS headquarters , workforce , Jason Miller , sequestration
Obama nominates Justice official to top Labor slot
Tags: Thomas Perez , Hilda Solis , DoL , DoJ , Justice , people
Obama nominates Justice official for top Labor slot
Seeking to fill another second-term Cabinet vacancy, President Barack Obama nominated Thomas Perez, an assistant attorney general, to be the next secretary of labor.
Tags: Thomas Perez , DoJ , Hilda Solis , Barack Obama
NIST's Leaf to become Labor deputy CIO
Dawn Leaf takes over for Tom Wiesner who retired in June.
Tags: technology , people , Dawn Leaf , Jason Miller
Labor Dept. says defense layoffs 'speculative,' no need for warning
Defense industry executives have spent the last few weeks warning that across-the-board budgets cuts that go into effect in January, could force them to issue notifications to employees in the fall to warn of impending layoffs. However, in a new memo issued Monday, the Labor Department said the lack of clarity about how the cuts would be applied means it would be "inappropriate" to issue Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notifications.
Tags: Jane Oates , budget , sequestration , industry , defense industry , Buck McKeon , House Armed Services Committee , Jack Moore
Fear hinders hiring people with disabilities
This week is the two-year anniversary of President Barack Obama's executive order to hire 100,000 more people with disabilities into the federal government by 2015. But the government is not on track to meet that goal, only hiring 20,000 people with disabilities for fiscal 2010 and 2011 combined, according to the Office of Personnel Management. As of fiscal 2010, less than 1 percent of the federal workforce had a targeted disability.
Tags: Kathy Martinez , ODEP , Veta Hurst , EEOC , hiring , management , disability hiring , discrimination , best practices
Lockheed machinists OK new labor deal, end strike
Lockheed Martin machinists ended their 10-week strike Thursday, approving a new labor deal that includes a $2,000 bonus and annual pay increases starting at 3 percent the first year.
Tags: Lockheed Martin , management , industry , contracting , acquisitions , Federal Drive , DoD , DoD Report
Media execs: Progress in dispute over gov't data
Tags: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Darrell Issa , Carl Fillichio
