Month: August 2026

U.S. Civil Service — Independent Agencies — Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

EEOC Sues Family Dollar Stores of North Carolina for Pregnancy Discrimination in Alleged Violation of PWFA

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GREENVILLE, N.C. — Family Dollar Stores of North Carolina, LLC, a Matthews, North Carolina-headquartered retailer with a store in Greenville, violated federal law by refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation for an employee’s pregnancy-related limitations and then firing her, according to a lawsuit announced today by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

U.S. Government — GAO — Reports & Decisions

Telecommunications: GSA Should Assess Agencies’ Effectiveness at Preventing Service Disruptions

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What GAO Found The General Services Administration (GSA) is responsible for ensuring that federal agencies have access to telecommunications services. Six agencies GAO selected to review recently completed their transitions from expired, legacy telecommunications contracts to the replacement Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract. However, their transitions were delayed by more than three years past GSA’s…

U.S. Government — GAO — Reports & Decisions

Broadband Deployment: Agencies Should Take Steps to Better Target Underserved Areas and Consider Sustainability

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What GAO Found Since 2020, four federal agencies administered the bulk of federal funding for broadband deployment through the nine programs GAO reviewed. These were the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), and Departments of Agriculture and the Treasury. For example, NTIA oversees the over $42-billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment…

Washington

Developmental disabilities program for WA families to be cut, but not ended

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Washington state officials are keeping a longstanding program seen as vital to parents of children with developmental disabilities, but cutting its funding, ending weeks of unease about its future.  The state Department of Social and Health Services is trimming the Parent to Parent program by 10%, but won’t eliminate it as was feared this summer.…