Federal agencies will see a $340 billion boost for operations and response efforts in the face of the novel coronavirus under a more than $2 trillion stimulus package Congress is expected to pass this week, which the Senate passed late Wednesday after painstaking bipartisan negotiations with the White House.
House lawmakers and unions want feds to receive extra compensation if their job puts them at risk of exposure to COVID-19, but the provision was not included in the $2 trillion relief package approved by the Senate Wednesday night.
The success of the EPA’s teleworking experience during the coronavirus pandemic is helping the union’s push for broader telecommuting rights for employees.
Senators from both parties said the Trump administration’s guidance encouraging agencies to allow their employees to work remotely proved inadequate to protect employees and the public from the coronavirus outbreak.
Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities are now screening patients, employees, and visitors for coronavirus. But some are questioning the agency's response to the pandemic.
According to reports from the frontlines, federal managers are failing in their response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Trump administration uses Federal Labor Relations Authority as a tool to launch an attack on federal employees.
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AFGE calls on Bureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal to stop the transport of untested inmates during the coronavirus pandemic.
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