Several management-related bills from the prior Congress have been reintroduced. Image: MDart10/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffA bill has been offered in the Senate (S-383) as a counterpart to a bill recently passed by the House requiring a focus on skills and competencies rather than educational level in position descriptions and job vacancy announcements.
Like the House bill (HR-159) that passed on a bipartisan basis, the measure would put into law a shift started in the Trump administration and that has continued in the Biden administration toward skills-based hiring, as well as to downplay the role of self-assessments by candidates.
Also introduced was S-349, to extend to remote positions a special authority for agencies to hire spouses of military members who are on active duty, disabled, or deceased.
Meanwhile, several other management-related bills from the prior Congress have been reintroduced:
* S-111, to require each agency, in providing notice of a rule making, to include a link to a 100-word plain language summary of the proposed rule.
* S-285, to formally authorize and provide an ongoing source of funding for Federal Executive Boards, which coordinate emergency response, employee training and other interagency activities in more than two dozen city areas.
* HR-890, to require agencies to publish their regulatory guidance online “in a single, easily accessible location.”
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