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More Restrictions on Conferences Ordered Published: June 19, 2013 OMB has sent additional guidance to agencies on conducting conferences, in light of the latest embarrassing IG report and resulting congressional hearing, this time involving a 2010 IRS conference for managers in California. The "controller [...]
Army Encourages Applications to Developmental Programs Published: June 19, 2013 The Army has sent out guidance to its components designed to encourage the use of several career development programs for its employees in the wake of the general hiring freeze caused by sequestration. The Army [...]
MSPB Advocates for Cross-Training Employees Published: June 18, 2013 Skills diversification in a work group can improve effectiveness and flexibility, the Merit Systems Protection Board has said in calling on managers to take the time to teach employees aspects of one another’s jobs as [...]
IG: USPS Performance Metrics Should Better Support Strategic Goals Published: June 18, 2013 The Postal Service clearly and accurately documents how it develops, measures, and approves its pay for performance metrics but current metrics do not directly support all of the agency’s strategic goals, the USPS inspector general [...]
IRS Must Better Manage Risks in Issuing Returns, GAO Says Published: June 18, 2013 The IRS receives few information returns before issuing most tax refunds and while it is exploring verification improvements, it must better manage risks, GAO has said. It said that in 2012 the agency issued 50 percent of [...]
Senator Questions Loss of Records at VA Cleveland Office Published: June 17, 2013 Following the loss of some 464,000 loan and grant records at a Department of Veterans Affairs office in Cleveland, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, is pressing VA secretary Erik Shinseki for answers and assurances that the mistake won't be [...]
IG Cites Nepotism Through Student Program at Energy Published: June 17, 2013 A senior official in Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy engaged in nepotism by advocating for his three children to get jobs through the department's Student Temporary Employment Program, the department's inspector general has said.-->
MSPB Warns of Risk of Cutting Training Published: June 17, 2013 Sequestration resulted in increased scrutiny of training and conference spending and less approval for those expenditures, but the Merit Systems Protection Board has warned that the longer term impact of too little training could wind up being [...]
GAO Recommends a More Focused Performance.gov Website Published: June 14, 2013 OMB should leverage leading website development practices in continuing to develop Performance.gov, and it could do better in communicating to its intended user base how the information provided on the website can be used, GAO has [...]
IG Wants to Step Up Oversight of OPM Revolving Fund Published: June 14, 2013 OPM's inspector general is pushing for greater oversight of OPM's Revolving Fund, through which the agency provides services such as background checks and HR management services to other agencies on a reimbursable basis. OPM's fiscal [...]
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