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July 26, 2019

Employee Rights

Fight Over Executive Orders Heats Up

The worst provisions of the president’s anti-employee 2018 executive orders remain blocked by a court order. However, the administration on Tuesday night asked to remove the injunction immediately, which would essentially free federal agencies to try and weaken employee rights and protections whenever a collective bargaining agreement is opened.

July 19, 2019

Benefits

Heat and Hypocrisy on Full Display

When it comes to telework, many federal employees are getting mixed messages. And NTEU isn’t having it. On one hand, multiple agencies are aggressively trying to curtail telework programs. And now comes a memo from the Office of Personnel Management encouraging agencies to use telework and alternative work schedules to help employees cope with the severe heat