Coronavirus Roundup: EPA Watchdog to Review Workplace Safety Measures; White House Is Rethinking Federal Vaccine Strategy

March 29, 2021

The pandemic, “does not appear to have significantly transformed the size or composition of the federal workforce,” in the short-term, according to an analysis by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service released on Friday. For example, among the front-line agencies, from March to December 2020, “the full-time workforces across these six agencies grew by an average of 0.7% per quarter, just slightly outpacing the 0.6% in average growth seen governmentwide over the same period,” said the report.