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'It’s in a lot of labor contracts': Trump's plans for gov't workers headed for brick wall

President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to fire thousands of federal workers unless they return to their office spaces will be met with fierce resistance from employees – and their union contracts, according to a Washington Post report. “Trump’s expected return-to-office mandate faces furious resistance from federal employees, many of whom are covered by union agreements that guarantee work-from-home policies — including …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Elon Musk's DOGE bombarded with insider tips on government waste. Here's what they revealed

Hindustan Times

Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican working with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy-driven Department of Government Efficiency, has taken on a new case of alleged government waste. Insiders flood Elon Musk's DOGE with government waste tips, including beach-living worker on DC salary. “Florida man moonlighting as a 'real estate professional' while allegedly slacking at his day job is just one of …

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1 month ago

Social Security union secures telework deal as Trump’s DOGE plans crackdown

CNN

CNN — Tens of thousands of Social Security Administration staffers can continue teleworking into 2029 under a recent deal signed between their union and the agency. The updated contract deal locks in the current levels of telework for American Federation of Government Employees members at the agency until late October 2029, according to a letter written by Rich Couture, AFGE …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Musk, Ramaswamy want federal workers in the office full time. There’s a hitch.

Live Mint

The nation’s largest workforce could soon be ordered back to the office full-time. “If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home," Musk and Ramaswamy wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece published Wednesday. The National Federation of Federal Employees, which represents 110,000 federal workers, has been consulting …

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1 year ago

I Am Straight-Up Obsessed With My New $29 Foot Warmer

Huff Post

“Recently started working from home again and I’m in front of the computer a LOT. Using it right now, feet are toasty and warm!” — Elbianna P “I used this product for my neuropathy, which makes my feet feel like they are frostbit. am extremely pleased with this product.” — Melissa Barker “So, as a perimenopausal woman, I’m going through …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Canada immigrations likely to smoothen as workers end strike

Live Mint

About 120,000 workers in Canada’s federal public service ended a strike after the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to wage increases of about 12% over four years. A third of the country's public workers -- around 155,000 people -- began striking on April 19, hitting picket lines at hundreds of locations around the country with demands for cost-of-living …

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1 year, 9 months ago

The latest on hybrid work: Who is WFH and who isn’t

CNN

New York CNN — As the economy slows, are employers starting to regain the upper hand in negotiations with employees and job seekers? The BLS survey also interpreted respondents’ answers as referring to a company’s formal telework policies, not whether some employees informally work remotely on occasion, such as responding to work emails from home. What others have found Stanford …

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4 years ago

Newsom cancels COVID-19 briefing amid outrage over mob violence at U.S. Capitol

LA Times

“Peaceful protest is an important mechanism of our democracy, but what we are witnessing in our nation’s Capitol building is reprehensible and an outright assault to our democracy and Democratic institutions,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom was originally scheduled to provide a COVID-19 update Wednesday afternoon, but canceled the briefing amid unrest in Washington, D.C., where a mob objecting to President-elect …

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4 years ago

Biden’s challenge: Creating a COVID-19-free White House

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Three blocks from the White House, office space for more than 500 Biden transition staffers sits mostly idle. The closest Biden’s team has come to experimenting with in-person work was election night, when a small selection of masked and socially distanced aides in Wilmington, Delaware, monitored returns in hotel conference rooms, a far cry from running a White …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Why this recession disproportionately affects women

BBC

Why this recession disproportionately affects women The Covid-19 recession is unique among modern economic shocks in its harm to women’s finances and prospects. One of the unique aspects of the current recession is the way it’s impacting women: though men are more likely to die of Covid-19, the pandemic’s toll on employment is heavier for women. The pandemic recession is …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Trump’s positive Covid-19 test throws country into fresh upheaval

CNN

CNN — President Donald Trump has had a fever since Friday morning after testing positive for coronavirus, according to a person familiar with the matter, a stunning development that threw a country already unnerved by a devastating health catastrophe and a turbulent political season into fresh upheaval on Friday. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said earlier Friday that …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Workers In Washington, D.C., Region Likely To Work From Home Until Next Summer

NPR

Workers In Washington, D.C., Region Likely To Work From Home Until Next Summer Enlarge this image toggle caption Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images With so much uncertainty continuing around the coronavirus, it might be next summer before most workers for private employers in the Washington, D.C., area return to the normalcy of their offices. That's …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Report: Utah minorities hit harder by workplace outbreaks

Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — Hispanic and non-white people in Utah were disproportionately hit by workplace COVID-19 outbreaks, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Monday. The report noted that non-white workers typically have less flexible work schedules and fewer telework opportunities compared to white employees. That lack of flexibility along with unpaid sick leave policies may …

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4 years, 6 months ago

EPA Said Giving Polluters A Pass Protected Its Workers. Its Own Union Says That’s Gaslighting.

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Environmental Protection Agency defended its controversial decision to halt enforcement of bedrock anti-pollution laws amid the coronavirus pandemic on the grounds that doing so protected workers and offered flexibility to companies facing staffing shortages. “EPA is taking these important considerations into account as we all continue our work to protect human health and the environment.” The …

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4 years, 8 months ago

Why are some people better at working from home than others?

BBC

Why are some people better at working from home than others? People with high frustration tolerances are generally also conscientious workers, who particularly succeed at remote work “If you’re easily getting frustrated, then you’re going to run away from and use avoidance as a coping mechanism, which will shoot you in the foot,” says Pychyl. Highly social, extroverted people may …

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4 years, 8 months ago

California governor outlines state’s phased reopening plan

CNN

CNN — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday outlined the phased reopening plan for his state, with retail businesses and schools “weeks away” based on an apparent stabilization in both the numbers of confirmed cases of, and deaths due to, coronavirus. Newsom on Tuesday floated the idea of restarting school in late July or early August, saying that “the prospects …

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4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus recession will hit women harder, experts warn

Al Jazeera

Crystal Crawford, 34, loves her job as a social worker at a nonprofit private school for children who have experienced homelessness. People who thought they had it all together - right now, we’re struggling to maintain our households by Crystal Crawford, social worker and part-time childcare provider ‘Well-worn path of inequality’ Of course, it is not just healthcare workers who …

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4 years, 9 months ago

US coronavirus cases top 500,000 as researchers say the worst is yet to come in Texas and Florida

CNN

CNN — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States topped 500,000 on Friday as health officials reported the highest number of death in a single day. “Within a period of a week or so, we’re going to have a rather large number of tests that are available,” Fauci said on CNN’s New Day Friday morning. Soon, she …

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4 years, 9 months ago

Trump Administration Seeks $46 Billion For Agencies To Deal With The Coronavirus

NPR

Trump Administration Seeks $46 Billion For Agencies To Deal With The Coronavirus Enlarge this image toggle caption Evan Vucci/Pool/Getty Images Evan Vucci/Pool/Getty Images Aside from the financial assistance the Trump administration and Congress are considering for individuals, small business and corporations, the federal government itself could be the beneficiary of a huge injection of money if lawmakers and the White …

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4 years, 9 months ago

With masks at the ready, ICE agents make arrests on first day of California coronavirus lockdown

LA Times

In the darkness of the early hours Monday, about a dozen immigration agents gathered outside a Starbucks in Bell Gardens. But that morning, they greeted one another with elbows instead of handshakes; the Starbucks where they rendezvoused was only grab and go; and they passed freeway signs that read: “Wash your hands stay healthy avoid COVID-19.” The ICE agents were …

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'It’s in a lot of labor contracts': Trump's plans for gov't workers headed for brick wall

Elon Musk's DOGE bombarded with insider tips on government waste. Here's what they revealed

Social Security union secures telework deal as Trump’s DOGE plans crackdown

Musk, Ramaswamy want federal workers in the office full time. There’s a hitch.

I Am Straight-Up Obsessed With My New $29 Foot Warmer

Canada immigrations likely to smoothen as workers end strike

The latest on hybrid work: Who is WFH and who isn’t

Newsom cancels COVID-19 briefing amid outrage over mob violence at U.S. Capitol

Biden’s challenge: Creating a COVID-19-free White House

Why this recession disproportionately affects women

Trump’s positive Covid-19 test throws country into fresh upheaval

Workers In Washington, D.C., Region Likely To Work From Home Until Next Summer

Report: Utah minorities hit harder by workplace outbreaks

EPA Said Giving Polluters A Pass Protected Its Workers. Its Own Union Says That’s Gaslighting.

Why are some people better at working from home than others?

California governor outlines state’s phased reopening plan

Coronavirus recession will hit women harder, experts warn

US coronavirus cases top 500,000 as researchers say the worst is yet to come in Texas and Florida

Trump Administration Seeks $46 Billion For Agencies To Deal With The Coronavirus

With masks at the ready, ICE agents make arrests on first day of California coronavirus lockdown