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NTEU decries proposed cuts to workers comp
The National Treasury Employees Union has denounced a Senate bill reforming the Postal Service because it would also reduce benefits under the federal workers' compensation program.
Tags: pay and benefits , FECA , benefits , NTEU , Susan Collins , Colleen Kelley , workers
Recovery Act spending exceeds CBO's estimates
Actual spending of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds between February 2009 and September 2011 exceeded Congressional Budget Office estimates by $20 billion or about 4 percent, according to a post on the CBO Director's blog.
Tags: Recovery Act , CBO , stimulus funding , USDA , Douglas Elmendorf
AFGE's strategy for 'good government' hinges on 2012 elections
With no end to lawmakers' fedbashing in sight, the American Federation of Government Employees is looking forward to 2012's presidential and Congressional elections. "Federal workers are a sane, responsible group of citizens. They vote in big numbers," AFGE President John Gage told Federal News Radio.
Tags: Emily Kopp , John Gage , AFGE , unions , workforce , Congress , 2011 and Beyond , election
Shiu: Contractors who miss disability goals face debarment
A proposed Labor Department rule to mandate 7 percent of federal contractors' workforce be disabled people is aimed at elevating the importance of disability hiring to the level of affirmative action for race and gender, a Labor official said.
Tags: Patricia Shiu , disabilities , contracting , workforce , hiring , affirmative action , Federal Drive
Labor sets disabled worker hiring goal for contractors
The Labor Department is proposing a rule to mandate that seven percent of federal contractors' workforce is people with disabilities.
Tags: workforce , hiring , disabilities , Patricia Shiu , Trey Hodgkins , TechAmerica , industry
Obama extends labor-management council to 2013
Unions, management associations and agencies will continue to meet through September 2013 to discuss issues from employee evaluations to bargaining over office space and technology. President Barack Obama signed an executive order extending the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations, the President's Management Advisory Board and seven other advisory committees.
Tags: National Council on Federal Labor Management Relations , Barack Obama , workforce , unions , management , George Nesterczuk , Carol Bonosaro , OPM , Tim Curry , Emily Kopp , President
Labor Department rolls out job-search website for veterans
Jane Oates, the assistant secretary for the Employment and Training Administration at the Labor Department, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss how a new veteran-specific job website works.
Tags: hiring , workforce , VA , DoD , My Next Move , Jane Oates , Federal Drive
SSA, AFGE still at negotiating impasse
Nearly two years of negotiating has led to a stalemate between the Social Security Administration and its largest union, the American Federation of Government Employees. The protracted dispute mars the Obama administration's otherwise productive attempts to collaborate formally with federal unions.
Tags: Social Security Administration , Michael Astrue , IFPTE , Greg Junemann , AFGE , Witold Skwierczynski , FMA , Jessica Klement , workforce , unions , management , National Council on Federal Labor Management Relations , Emily Kopp
Labor gives cash awards for job help apps
The Labor Department gave $68,000 in prizes for applications to help connect unemployed people with job positions.
Tags: innovation , apps , technology , Challenge.gov , Hilda Solis
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Tags: technology , cyber security , glenn schlarman , OMB , scott charbo , DHS , Tom Wiesner , Robert Lentz , DoD , mike gibbons , Unisys , mike rau , Cisco , donald goff , UMUC , Jim Flyzik , Tom Trezza
