OPM Offers Training Course on Performance Management
OPM has made available a new web-based training course titled Performance Management Plus—Engaging for Success, designed to support agencies in …More
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The IG’s office at the EPA has issued a management alert regarding the agency’s security practices for contractor personnel, saying …More
GAO Cites Concerns with Physical Security of NIST Facilities
Issues of internal communications and divided responsibility have raised the GAO’s concerns about physical security at National Institute of Standards …More
Acquisition-Related Bills Advancing in House
The House has passed HR-3243, to make permanent some otherwise-expiring provisions of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, which …More
MSPB Ruling Would Hamper Whistleblower Protections, OSC Says
The Office of Special Counsel has intervened in a case pending before a federal appeals court that it says would …More
Reprisal Investigations Drag Out at DoD, Report Says
The Defense Department’s IG office did not meet statutory or internal timeliness goals for more four-fifths of the civilian and …More
Employee Views of Leaders Fall as Level Rises
Results of the latest Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey show a slight general increase in views of management at all layers …More
DoD Should Better Track Executive Agents, GAO Says
GAO has said that DoD does not accurately track its executive agents, management arrangements in which one component coordinates efforts …More
Audit Finds No Political Interference in FOIA Responses at DHS
A DHS policy giving political appointees advance notice that the department is about to release information under a significant FOIA …More
Policies on Legal Defense Funds Updated
The Office of Government Ethics has clarified its interpretation of how ethics laws and rules apply to federal employees benefitting …More
IG Finds Issues with Collection of IRS Employee Debt, Treatment of Taxpayers
Separate IG reports focusing on the IRS workforce—which for years has been under especially tight scrutiny from Capitol Hill among …More
Agencies Collaborate to Recruit Cyber Employees
In what is being billed as the first event of its kind, about 20 agencies will conduct a joint career …More
OMB Instructs Agencies on Disaster Response Funding Requests
OMB has told agencies to provide by October 25 their estimates for additional funding needed related to recovery and rebuilding …More
Report Suggests Possible USPS Uses of Driverless Vehicles
The Postal Service should push ahead with tests that have already started regarding potential uses of driverless vehicles, an IG …More
OGE Tells Top Officials to Set Proper Tone for Ethics
The Office of Government Ethics has sent a memo to top agency leaders stressing that they are “ultimately responsible” for …More
Groups Join to Push Personnel Policy Reforms
Two good-government groups have joined to push for civil service reforms that would involve changes in recruiting, hiring, paying, rating …More
Report Documents Recruitment, Retention Issues at VA
The VA has the most difficulty filling jobs in “critical need” occupations including medical officer, nurse, psychologist, physician and medical …More
Organizations Lament End of Labor-Management Council
Both the management and the labor side of the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations have expressed regret, although not …More
Report Suggests Possible USPS Uses of Driverless Vehicles
The Postal Service should push ahead with tests that have already started regarding potential uses of driverless vehicles, an IG …More
OPM Asks Agencies to Help Counter Opioid Abuse
OPM has told agencies that they “have an important role in fighting” the opioid abuse epidemic, saying that “the first …More
Drug Shipments Raise Concerns about Postal Employee Safety
The bipartisan leaders of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have asked the Postal Service IG for an assessment …More
Report Recommends Changes to Insider Threat Program at FBI
The Justice Department IG has recommended strengthening the insider threat detection program at the FBI, where it said protection of …More
Execs See Problems with Recruitment, Career Development
SES members are concerned about their agencies’ ability to attract and keep top talent as well as about the level …More
Panel Approves Bills on Hiring, Other Issues
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has approved several hiring-related bills including: S-1887, to allow direct-hire of college …More
Improper Use of Purchase Cards at VA Results in Waste, Audit Says
The VA may have spent more than $256 million more than necessary for the purchase of prosthetics in fiscal 2015 …More
Automation Could Augment Some Federal Jobs, Replace Others
Recent studies of the potential impact on increasing use of automation have suggested both that it could augment the federal …More
More Attention to Retention Incentives at EPA Recommended
The EPA has made progress in addressing problems with its retention incentives program identified in an earlier audit but some …More
FEHB Premium Increase 6.1 Percent
OPM has announced an overall increase in total premiums for the 2018 Federal Employees Health Benefits program of 6.1 percent …More
Report Describes ‘Ban the Box’ Bill as Balanced
Legislation (S-842) pending a Senate vote that generally would bar agencies from asking an applicant about any criminal record as …More
‘Difficult’ Work Ahead on Telecommunications Transition, GAO Says
Federal agencies are facing a “difficult task” in transitioning their telecommunications services to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions that will replace …More
