Growing Numbers of ‘Excepted’ Employees Missing Work
Growing numbers of employees who are “excepted” from furlough and required to continue working without pay due to the partial …More
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Interior Cautions on Ethics Considerations for Unpaid Employees
In guidance whose basic contours would apply government-wide, the Interior Department has warned employees unpaid during the partial shutdown–both those …More
GAO Lists Hiring, Pay as in Need of Reform
A recent blog posting by the GAO says that “key personnel functions still need to be modernized” and that since …More
Membership Set on Key House Panel
The membership for the present Congress has been set for the key committee in the House overseeing federal employment and …More
MSPB Hits Two-Year Mark without Quorum
The Merit Systems Protection Board has now been without a quorum for two years, a period it has been unable …More
Report Finds Improvement in VA Appointment Wait Times
The VA has said it has substantially reduced wait times for patients in primary care and three specialty care services …More
Agencies Lagging in Using Shared Services, Report Says
Despite efforts dating to the Reagan administration to expand use of shared services among agencies, the government remains well behind …More
House Passes Personnel, Management Bills; Others Signed
The House has passed a series of bills that advanced in the prior Congress but fell short of enactment: HR-135, …More
Guide to Understanding Agency Financial Audits Issued
The inspector general’s office at DoD has issued a guide to help non-auditors understand agency financial audits, saying that management …More
Lineup of Key Senate Panel Set
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., as expected will remain chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the key panel …More
Shutdown Said to Be Putting Employee Security Clearances at Risk
A leading senator on security clearance matters has asked the Trump administration to issue guidelines ensuring that agencies do not …More
Half of Disclosures Not Whistleblowing, VA Says
The VA has said that 51 percent of the disclosures to a special office established there in mid-2017 to receive …More
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Lawsuit Seeks End of ‘Forced, Unpaid Labor’ During Shutdown
A Washington DC firm has filed a lawsuit seeking to end the practice of forcing certain federal employees to continue …More
VA, AFGE Tangle over Veterans Suicide Comments
In a further sign of the deteriorating relationship between federal agencies and unions and the fraying of nerves over the …More
Employees Called More Vulnerable to Retaliation with OSC Shuttered
In a letter directed to the VA that raises an issue applicable across the government, the chairman of the House …More
Opinion | Commentary
An Avenue Around the Shutdown
The strident standoff on the government shutdown is being argued at a political level. The President’s premise, without valid and …More
Key House Panel Signals Change of Direction
The key House committee overseeing federal workplace and benefits matters has signaled the change of direction now that it is …More
GAO Urges More Attention to Risks of Major Improper Payments
In a review of five programs across three departments that had been designated as at relatively low risk of major …More
Concerns Raised about Shutdown’s Impact on Recruiting
With the partial government shutdown still underway and with no end in sight, attention already is shifting to the impact …More
Historic, Environmental Concerns Hamper VA in Shedding Excess Property
The VA faces special challenges in disposing of obsolete buildings simply because many of them are so old that they …More
No Documentation of Unpaid Status Needed for Borrowers, TSP Says
The TSP has said that while it normally requires documentation from agencies that an employee is in unpaid status for …More
FPS Doesn’t Quite Fit in DHS, Report Says
The Federal Protective Service, an entity that DHS took over in 2003, doesn’t seem to have a natural fit in …More
Mood in Government Souring as Shutdown Drags On
As the partial government shutdown that has put some 800,000 employees in non-pay status drags on into its third week, …More
Report Questions Estimates of DoD Civilian Costs
The military services’ budget requests do not always accurately represent the actual cost of their civilian workforces since their budgeted …More
Senate Report Criticizes Marshals Service
The U.S. Marshals Service suffers from “a culture of mismanagement, reckless spending, favoritism, and a general lack of accountability,” the …More
CIO, IG Acts Reintroduced
Legislation has been reintroduced in Congress (HR-247) to formally designate as the federal CIO the head of the OMB office …More
New House Leadership Proposes Stronger Ethics Laws
The new Democratic leadership in the House has introduced as priority legislation (HR-1) a series of reforms including stronger ethical …More
Bill Seeking Broader Anti-Discrimination, Whistleblowing Protections Reintroduced
The new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., has reintroduced (HR-135) legislation that …More
House Drops ‘Holman Rule’ That Allowed Targeted Spending Cuts
The new Democratic leadership of the House has dropped the “Holman Rule,” which in essence allowed the House to use …More
Energy Department Not Learning Its Lessons, Says GAO
The Energy Department has a process to capture lessons learned on capital assets projects “but not all lessons are to …More
