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Top Obama appointees using secret email accounts
Tags: HHS , Kathleen Sebelius , management , Seth Harris , EPA , oversight
5 percent of federal workforce to be furloughed Friday
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, Internal Revenue Service, Office of Management and Budget and the Environmental Protection Agency will all shut down Friday because of widespread employee furloughs — giving feds a four-day holiday weekend. The Labor and Interior Departments also are telling employees to stay home.
Tags: workforce , furloughs , sequestration , IRS , OMB , HUD , EPA , Interior , Jason Miller
Obama to nominate Katherine Archuleta as next OPM director
Katherine Archuleta, President Barack Obama's nominee for director of the Office of Personnel Management, served as his national political director in the 2012 election. Prior to that, Archuleta served as chief of staff to former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.
Tags: Katherine Archuleta , OPM , people , Barack Obama
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
