Lawsuit urges OPM to end 7-year delay to keep feds off indefinite paid administrative leave
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Elizabeth Duan | July 3, 2024
A public-sector advocacy group is suing the Office of Personnel Management over a nearly seven-year delay in finalizing a rule, which plaintiffs say would keep agencies from putting federal employees on paid administrative leave indefinitely. Public Employees for Environmental ...
Some EPA employees are happy with their new labor agreement
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Elizabeth Duan | June 25, 2024
A new contract for employees at the Environmental Protection Agency has some new assurances that allow scientists to discuss their work more freely. The new contract has a provision protecting scientific integrity. For more, Federal News Network’s Eric White spoke to Jeff Ruch of Public ...
Federal employee whistleblower complaints to OSC fall by nearly half over 5 years
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Elizabeth Duan | February 29, 2024
Federal employees are filing fewer whistleblower disclosures, and reporting fewer complaints of whistleblower retaliation. The Office of Special Counsel, according to recent data analyzed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), saw a more than 48% decline in ...
Paid administrative leave still plagues the federal workforce
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Susan Sargent | October 11, 2023
We’ve had several clients who were put on extended administrative leave without any guidelines, any boundaries on that administrative leave. In a prominent case, we represented a former managing director of an agency who was put on leave by his agency, paid for three years, which was ...