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How to be Inclusive of Employees with Mental Health Disabilities
The best way to honor Mental Health Awareness Month is to understand how your actions affect others.
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GovExec Daily: Is the Civil Service Ready for the Biden Agenda?
Mark Abramson of Leadership Inc. joins the podcast to discuss how feds are prepared for a new era of big government.
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Lawmaker Pushes Federal Agencies to Allow Schools to Use Their Buildings
Measure is aimed at allowing children to return to in-person learning faster.
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Senators Seek to Get Pentagon To Achieve a Clean Audit
A bipartisan bill would penalize the Defense Department for failing.
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Biden Requires Climate Considerations in Budget Process
The executive order is aimed at identifying and addressing the risks that climate change poses to Americans, the U.S. financial system and the federal government itself.
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How a Key Tool Could Help Agencies Meet New Climate Goals
Climate councils can improve organizational flexibility and responsiveness as sustainability requirements evolve.
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Senate Rejects Measure to Match Domestic Agency Funding Increases With Equal Surge for Pentagon
Republicans accuse Democrats of hypocrisy; Democrats say amendment is absurd.
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Arbitrator: Social Security Engaged in Multiple Instances of Bad Faith Bargaining, Must Renegotiate
In a separate decision, a federal judge found the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the Association of Administrative Law Judges’ suit challenging the constitutionality of appointments to the Federal Service Impasses Panel.
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Biden Signs Law Directing Justice Department to Combat COVID-19 Hate Crimes
It requires the department to designate an employee to facilitate an expedited review of such crimes.
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Will Ending Mask Requirements Cause a Surge in COVID-19 Cases?
"...Some states that decrease their public health efforts on physical distancing and mask-wearing could see high levels of COVID-19 cases..."
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Congress Takes Another Significant Step Toward Finally Making Postal Reform Law
Both parties and both chambers see eye to eye on the bill, marking a major development on the path to passing postal legislation, something Congress has tried and failed to accomplish for a decade.
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GovExec Daily: Are You Bringing Employees Back to an Unhealthy Workplace?
Michael Lee Stallard joins the podcast to discuss how to foster a better return to office.
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Biden Expected to Unveil Full Budget Proposal Next Week, Without a Permanent OMB Director
A veteran Capitol Hill staffer has been serving as the acting head of the Office of Management and Budget.
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Diversity RFI Opens the Door to Rethinking How Government Reaches Its Goals
The administration is using a recent request for information as a crowd-sourcing tool for policy solutions around equity goals.
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Republicans Press Biden to Bring Federal Employees Back to Their Offices Immediately
The administration has so far maintained its governmentwide 25% maximum capacity policy for federal buildings.
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GovExec Daily: CBP, Social Media and the IG Report
Eric Katz joins the podcast to discuss a new Homeland Security Inspector General report on workforce issues at Customs and Border Protection.
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OPM Updates Agencies, Unions on Labor-Management Forums
A Trump-era order shutting down union-management councils at federal agencies remains “under review,” officials said, but in the meantime, agencies may elect to start new ones if they wish.
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Documents Show Trump Officials Used Secret Terrorism Unit to Question Lawyers at the Border
In newly disclosed records, Trump officials cited conspiracies about Antifa to justify interrogating immigration lawyers with a special terrorism unit. The documents also show that more lawyers were targeted than previously known.
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OPM Urges Agencies to Support Feds’ Mental Health
The government’s HR agency this week will host a panel discussion of mental health issues for officials and share tips for managers to support work-life balance initiatives.
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