The offer to military veterans left unemployed by the coronavirus pandemic was tantalizing: A year of online courses courtesy of the federal government. Graduates would be set up for good jobs in high-demand fields… Schedules were disorganized and courses did not follow a set syllabus. School-pr...
Congress is racing toward March 1 and March 8 deadlines tofund the federal government. If no deal is agreed upon this week, a series of key programs and services for military service members and their families will shutter. If a deal isn't reached by March 8, the Pentagon itself is at ...
devices, and sensors could provide real-time data on perimeter security, asset management, and mission-critical systems. 15 a 5g-enabled smart base also could benefit military families by providing better educational resources for military spouses and children, telemedicine services, and more. remote ...
The plan also issued a number of hiring objectives—a 5% increase in the number of military spouses employed by federal agencies, a 5% increase in employees with disabilities, and a 10% increase in early-career employees (interns and recent graduates).26 Long term, OPM will focus more on ...
plan overseen by the Office of Personnel Management and serving 1.7 million Postal Service employees, annuitants and eligible dependents is set to begin with its first open season in two weeks, but aninspector general’s reportquestions whether th...
The primary criteria to receiveVA healthcare benefitsare that you are a military veteran or former member of the National Guard or Reserve who served on active duty and was not dishonorably discharged. Specific eligibility depends on when you served and for how long. The rules are complicated ...
An as-yet unpublished executive order purports to utilize a little-used provision allowing the president to restrict collective bargaining for national security reasons to exempt most federal jobs from union protections. Erich Wagner March 27, 2025...
What makes the FMCS unique is that it does nothing else. It exists solely for the benefit of employees (though I should add that it would be an improvement if many other bureaucracies in Washington took the same approach). I’ll close by acknowledging that I have no idea if Trump can el...
Evans and other surviving spouses interviewed by CNN said the VA’s application process was confusing, exhausting and traumatic. CNN’s investigation was published amid plans by the Trump administration to cut some 80,000 jobs at the VA. Sens. Blumenthal and Gallego voiced serious concern those...
The hiring freeze does not apply to the military or positions related to immigration enforcement, national security or public safety. Within the next 90 days, the order said, the Office of Management and Budget, Office of Personnel Management and the so-called...