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Washington D.C. – Preserving the civil service as an institution based on merit, offering competitive pay and benefits and effective employee engagement are keys to building and maintaining a highly skilled federal workforce, NTEU President Tony Reardon told Congress today. In a hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government ...

According to a Sept. 4 memo, an agency may grant weather and safety leave when it has determined that employees cannot safely travel to, or perform work at, their normal worksite, a telework site or other approved location because of severe weather. However, “employees with the ability to telework will not receive weather and safety leave as they are not ...

“As we experience severe heat and humidity this summer, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is partnering with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to remind Federal agencies to be proactive in protecting the health and well‑being of our employees,” Acting Director Margaret Weichert wrote Tuesday in a memo to agencies. Ironically, ...

Washington D.C. – Scaling back telework at the Department of Health and Human Services would increase commuting times, reduce productivity and prompt many employees to consider leaving the agency, according to an employee survey conducted by the National Treasury Employees Union. NTEU shared the survey results with HHS Secretary Alex Azar in a letter on Monday ...

Washington D.C. – Today marked a historic new beginning for employees at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as the agency and the National Treasury Employees Union formally signed the first-ever collective bargaining agreement between the two organizations. “I want to thank Chairman Giancarlo for this opportunity to jointly sign this contract and begin ...

Since taking office, the new FLRA majority has issued decisions that narrow the scope of bargaining, strip employees of their collective bargaining rights and make it harder to enforce their rights in the workplace. NTEU continues to alert Congress and the media to this attack on federal employees and their unions.  In a HuffPost article posted Tuesday, ...

Washington D.C. – A summer-long commuting crisis for tens of thousands of federal employees in the Washington region has prompted the administration to encourage more telework and alternative work schedules, a welcome change from recent efforts to curtail the programs. The Office of Personnel Management has asked agencies to expand workplace flexibilities ...