NASA Astronauts Don’t Receive Overtime Pay for Space Mission But Get  a Day
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NASA Astronauts Don’t Receive Overtime Pay for Space Mission But Get $5 a Day

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines If your eight-day work trip was unexpectedly extended by nine months, you might expect to rack up some overtime pay. Not so for Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA astronauts who spent 278 extra days on the International Space Station after their…

Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies
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Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In Elon Musk’s first two weeks in government, his lieutenants gained access to closely held financial and data systems, casting aside career officials who warned that they were defying protocols. They moved swiftly to shutter specific programs — and even an entire agency…

Resignation Push Deepens Worries About Effect on Government Services
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Resignation Push Deepens Worries About Effect on Government Services

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In the first week of the new Trump administration, the country’s more than two million federal workers were hit with rapid-fire announcements that longtime job protections and telework were suddenly being revoked. The second week brought a carrot, of sorts: an offer that…

Trump Administration Puts Dozens of U.S.A.I.D. Officials on Paid Leave
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Trump Administration Puts Dozens of U.S.A.I.D. Officials on Paid Leave

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration placed several dozen senior officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development on administrative leave in response to what an official characterized as resistance to President Trump’s policy. An email on Monday to U.S.A.I.D. staff from the agency’s acting administrator,…

Trump’s Moves to Upend Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off Fear and Confusion
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Trump’s Moves to Upend Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off Fear and Confusion

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines An Education Department employee was attending a funeral this week when she got the call: She was being placed on administrative leave because she works on projects that connect Black students, among others, to federal government programs. A disabled veteran employed at the…

Amazon’s Fight With Unions Heads to Whole Foods Market
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Amazon’s Fight With Unions Heads to Whole Foods Market

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At a sprawling Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia, a battle is brewing. The roughly 300 workers are set to vote on Monday on whether to form the first union in Amazon’s grocery business. Several store employees said they hoped a union could negotiate…

Opinion | I’m a Federal Employee. This Is What We Need Most in the Trump Era.
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Opinion | I’m a Federal Employee. This Is What We Need Most in the Trump Era.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Federal employees like me have been hearing a lot in recent weeks about how important it is for us to stay in our jobs, despite President-elect Donald Trump’s open animosity toward much of the federal work force. We’ve been told by friends, relatives…