AFGE, Education Reach Settlement on Complaints Dating to Trump Administration
The AFGE union has announced a settlement with the Education Department over complaints resulting from the department’s imposition in 2018 …More
The AFGE union has announced a settlement with the Education Department over complaints resulting from the department’s imposition in 2018 …More
The USPS will have fewer retail, delivery, and processing employees for this year’s peak mailing season than it had during …More
The House has joined the Senate in passing a bill (S-3510) to require federal agencies to take disaster resilience into …More
The GAO has said that its recommendations generated more than $55 billion in savings to federal agencies in fiscal 2022 …More
The Office of Government Ethics has said it out-scored the government-wide figures in the key indicators in this year’s Federal …More
The MSPB has upheld prior decisions that whistleblower protections in federal personnel actions apply even to disclosures the individual made …More
OPM has opened registration for an online and no-cost “DEIA Summit” December 6-8 with the theme of a whole of …More
Overturning its prior precedent, the MSPB has raised it standards for what an agency has to prove when seeking to …More
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has asked the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office to review sexual harassment at …More
The path has been cleared for final voting in the last weeks of the current Congress on a new set …More
The FLRA has rejected the AFGE union’s challenge to a VA facility’s decision to change employees’ working schedules due to …More
OPM has said it will soon send out guidance encouraging agencies to remind supervisors when subordinates are nearing the end …More
The Biden administration has issued proposed changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation to require major federal contractors to publicly disclose …More
Increasing use of personal devices for work purposes by government employees is adding to cybersecurity risks, says a report from …More
In a decision that has no immediate practical impact but involves an issue that may be revisited in the future, …More
Recent reform of facilities clearance regulations now demands more of the corporate facilities security officer (FSO). On February 24, 2021, the …More
A posting on performance.gov highlights actions by five agencies to improve customer service by five agencies, including a mobile app …More
A posting by the Postal Service IG’s office says that despite the downturn in mail in recent years in favor …More
The Congressional Budget Office has produced cost estimates on a number of bills related to federal management and benefit issues …More
Customs and Border Protection has committed to implementing the “30X30” initiative in which law enforcement agencies aim to increase the …More
OPM has issued a Workforce Planning Guide for “agency leaders, managers, supervisors, HR Specialists, and employees who are involved in …More
The White House has said it will devote some $1.5 billion of funding under the Inflation Reduction Act “build and …More
A survey of agency chief data officers has said that those in those relatively newly created positions are making progress …More
A newly posted dashboard on evaluation.gov compiles topics for study listed in the learning agendas under the Foundations for Evidence-Based …More
A newly introduced bill (HR-9233) in the House would set a series of government-wide and agency-specific steps to improve customer …More
Federal agencies as of September had carried out only about a third of GAO’s recommendations, some of them dating to …More
The inspector general’s office at DHS has again called for better coordination among the department’s law enforcement agencies, saying the …More
A survey has found that the public views the federal government as “falling short of its potential for positive impact,” …More
The Senior Executives Association, saying “pay compression has been long discussed but never meaningfully addressed,” has recommended a thorough overhaul …More
The IRS has said it’s near its goal to add 5,000 employees to its customer service operations, an area where …More