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  Military parade expected to cost $12 million

  By FederalSoup Staff

  Although the plans for a military parade are not final or approved, the Pentagon expects the costs to be approximately $12 million.
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  GAO: VA needs to better manage employee misconduct data

  By Sherkiya Wedgeworth

  The Veterans Affairs Department needs to improve their systems used to address employee misconduct and prevent retaliation, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report.
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  Service members can no longer indefinitely transfer GI Bill benefits to family

  By Sherkiya Wedgeworth

  The Department of Defense has changed the rules on when service members can transfer GI Bill benefits to eligible family members.
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  VA creates new office to oversee digital health record effort

  By FederalSoup Staff

  The Department of Veterans Affairs has established a special office to oversee the agency’s multibillion dollar electronic health record digitization effort.
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  NTEU urges Congress to provide paid parental leave for feds

  By Sherkiya Wedgeworth

  National Treasury Employees Union President Tony Reardon testified this week at a subcommittee hearing examining paid parental leave, where he expressed to lawmakers the importance of providing the benefit to federal employees.
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  Lawmakers, American Bar Assoc. want to block executive order

  By FederalSoup Staff

  A Virginia lawmaker is seeking to block the president’s recent executive order that removes all administrative law judges from the competitive examination and selection process.
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  Unions: workforce executive orders causing ‘chaos’

  By FederalSoup Staff

  Federal employee union representatives say that actions taken at agencies to restrict union activities while on the job have begun to cause chaos.
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  Expert sees even tougher road ahead for WH executive orders

  By Nathan Abse

  Nathan Abse speaks with an attorney and professor of labor and employment relations at the University of Illinois College of Law, Michael H. Leroy, about the White House push to curb labor’s power in federal agencies—and, more broadly, in the American workplace.
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  OSHA investigating mail carrier's death

  By FederalSoup Staff

  Federal investigators are now looking into workplace safety concerns at the Postal Service after a California mail carrier was found dead in her mail truck on a day when temperatures reached more than 100 degrees.

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