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Tax chief pushes 'AI-first IRS' to get more out of agency's workforce (opens the original)
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The IRS is looking to move more aggressively to adopt artificial intelligence tools, with the goal of being more responsive to taxpayers seeking help – while also ensuring individuals and businesses pay what they owe the tax agency. IRS Chief Executive Officer Frank Bisignano told employees in an all-staff meeting Wednesday that an “AI-first IRS” will make its workforce more productive, after the agency cut more than a quarter of its headcount under prior leadership last year. He said AI won’t r
‘Nobody knows anything.’ Displaced IRS staff move from one project to another with few details why (opens the original)
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Mid-career IRS employees involuntarily moved to entry-level jobs they had no prior experience doing are getting new assignments, as part of the agency’s latest shakeup. The IRS in February put IT and human resources employees on 120-day details to work in taxpayer services. They were assigned entry-level roles answering inquiries from taxpayers and processing tax returns. The National Treasury Employees Union estimates that about 1,500 IRS employees were placed on these details. Many of these te
Shutdown mass-layoff policy rescinded as part of settlement with unions (opens the original)
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The Trump administration is withdrawing its authorization of widespread layoffs across the federal workforce during a government shutdown. Federal employee unions reached a settlement with the administration on Friday, putting a pause on a lawsuit that challenged widespread layoffs carried out during a 43-day government shutdown last year. The lawsuit will be held in abeyance until the end of the year, giving unions the ability to reopen the case if another shutdown occurs, and if the administra
VA’s contracting crackdown gave some staff hours to do hundreds of reviews (opens the original)
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The Veterans Affairs Department moved quickly to eliminate hundreds of contracts last year at the Department of Government Efficiency’s urging – in some cases, giving officials only a few hours to review contracts marked for elimination. VA’s Office of Inspector General found in a report this week that the agency terminated 435 contracts last year, valued at $1.1 billion. About 86% of those cancelled contracts were for consulting services. VA OIG reviewed 2,210 contracts in total. These contract
Labor’s disability accommodation delays under scrutiny by House lawmakers (opens the original)
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A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is pressing the Labor Department for answers about delays in processing accommodation requests for its employees with disabilities and medical conditions. Labor Department employees told Government Executive last month that the agency is facing a backlog of hundreds of reasonable accommodation requests, and that they have waited months or longer for the agency to address their cases. Faced with this backlog, the department is looking to roll out artificial i
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