Join host Jason Briefel and a panel of guests from BGRS – a global relocation company and mobility thought leader in comparing the U.S. government, Canadian government, and around the world approaches to talent management, talent competition, employee experience, and shifts in work habits amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing ‘Great Resignation.’

The IRS Criminal Investigations Division plays a key role in protecting our financial systems. A look inside the work of an IRS Special Agent.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the day-to-day challenges of all federal employees, but federal law enforcement officers have become especially vulnerable due to constantly changing policies and updated procedures.

On September 9, 2021, President Biden issued an “Executive Order on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees,” an executive order “requir[ing] COVID-19 vaccination for all Federal employees, subject to such exceptions as required by law.”

In honor of Hispanic Heritage month, listen to Sgt. Martha Echevarria discuss her background and heritage while expressing how lucky she feels to be living the American Dream.

According to a Department of Justice press release from September 13, 2021, Emily Claire Hari, 50, formerly known as Michael Hari, was sentenced to life in prison for the August 5, 2017, bombing of the Dar al-Farooq (DAF) Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota.

According to an audit report from the Office of the Inspector General at the United States Postal Service (USPS), cryptocurrency, as used postal inspectors, can be better tracked and accounted for in order to prevent abuse, waste, or fraud. While the audit found the current program to be sufficient, , auditors found over 1,000 cases where the use of cryptocurrency may not have been properly recorded.

In a September 13, 2021 letter to Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, the National Association of Assistant United States Attorneys (NAAUSA) requested that the Justice Department allow assistant U.S. attorneys (AUSAs) access to the General Schedule and get rid of a pay scale that underpays AUSAs. The letter signed by NAAUSA President Larry Leiser noted that the group had previously met with Deputy Attorney General Monaco to discuss the issue and NAAUSAs other priorities.

In a September 13, 2021 speech to the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the Department of Justice would be issuing 19 reforms to how federal monitors operate as they work in local police departments.

Today, President Biden signed an Executive Order requiring all federal employees and contractors get vaccinated against Covid-19 as a part of his six-pronged, comprehensive national strategy to overcome the pandemic. The six parts of the plan consist of vaccinating the unvaccinated, further protecting the vaccinated, keeping schools safely open, increasing testing and requiring masking, protecting our economic recovery, and improving care for those with COVID-10.

To establish the “ultimate discovery” exception to the exclusionary rule, the government must prove the exception by a “preponderance of the evidence,” the Eleventh Circuit recently held in an en banc decision. The full-court decision reversed forty-one years of Circuit precedent.

The Biden Administration recently proposed a stopgap-spending bill of $30 billion to fund disaster aid and Afghan refugee resettlement as the 2021 fiscal year comes to a close on September 30th. The White House is pushing lawmakers to consider a continuing resolution to allow more time for Congress to pass a funding bill.

The exhibit recognizes the 72 officers killed on September 11, as well as 236 officers who died of illnesses contracted while working in the hazardous conditions at the World Trade Center.

According to a Department of Justice press release dated September 2, 2021, Alexanda Amon Kotey, 37, a former British citizen turned Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) fighter, pleaded guilty to for his participation in a brutal hostage-taking scheme that resulted in the deaths of four American citizens as well as British and Japanese nationals.

In a September 3, 2021 memo, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Kiran Ahuja announced the establishment of an Emergency Leave Transfer Program (ELTP) to help federal employees who were adversely affected by Hurricane Ida.

A coalition of associations representing government managers wrote a letter to the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force expressing concern over a lack of proper guidance and clear-cut lines of communication for implementing COVID-19 testing and vaccination requirements.

According to a 2020 LIMRA study, 41 million Americans without life insurance admit that they need it. This is largely due to a misconception about costs, as half of the study’s respondents estimated that life insurance was three times more expensive than it is. Educating yourself on life insurance, coverage options, and pricing is necessary to make an informed decision. What are the basic questions about life insurance? What works best for you?

Agencies are to allow employees up to 4 hours of administrative leave to get a COVID-19 vaccination, and up to 2 days of administrative leave following a dose resulting in an adverse reaction, according to the latest guidance from the White House Safer Federal Workforce Task Force released on August 25.

Saginaw, a city in Michigan, chalked car tires to enforce parking regulations. Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit considered whether suspicionless tire chalking is a valid administrative search.

Meet the crew of NASA’s Pegasus barge and learn how they transported the core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket in April. Pegasus ferried the 212-foot-tall rocket stage on a 900-mile journey.