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
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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
OSC Cites Results in Whistleblower, Other Cases
The Office of Special Counsel has said that in fiscal 2018 it again both received and processed about 6,000 cases, …More
Impact of Partial Shutdown Starting to Change
With the partial government shutdown now well into its second week, the impact on affected agencies, their employees and their …More
Several Bills Advance Late in Congress
In the waning days of the 115th Congress, several management-related bills were passed and sent to the White House: S-2276, …More
OGE Sends Reminder on Ethics Policies in Furloughs
Federal employees on unpaid furlough due to the partial government shutdown remain covered by ethics policies governing outside employment, the …More
Guidance Issued on Unemployment Claims
OPM has posted guidance regarding unemployment claims related to furloughs, stating that while furloughed employees could qualify for benefits under …More
Audit Questions Overtime at FPS
An IG report done at the request of the DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate found that the Federal Protective …More
Demonstration Days on Grants Management Set
Demonstration days will be held January 29-31, with a “virtual pre-demonstration day” session January 8, under the “results-oriented accountability for …More
DoD Set to Take Over Nearly All Background Checks by Late 2019
DoD will take over from OPM responsibility for conducting nearly all background checks for issuing or renewing federal employee security …More
Workforce Challenges Hampering DoD Depot Mission, GAO Says
Difficulties in hiring employees in a timely manner and bringing them up to full performance level are having an impact …More
Audit Points to Complications for Sharing Space
In a report whose lessons could apply to the broader government-wide effort to “reduce the footprint,” the Postal Service IG …More
