Senators Decry Time Lost in Deciding Exceptions to Freeze
A group of nine senators, all but one Republicans, has asked OPM to work with DoD to speed up approval …More
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A survey by the NTEU union of its local officials showed that more than half believe the general federal hiring …More
Study Yields Mixed Assessment of FAA Personnel Authorities
It is difficult to assess whether special personnel authorities put in place for the Federal Aviation Administration in a 1995 …More
Work-Life Survey Period Coming to Close
Federal employees who received an invitation to fill out OPM’s survey of federal agency work-life programs still have about two …More
Diversion of Drugs at VA Raises Bipartisan Concerns
Bipartisan members of the House Veterans Affairs Committee have expressed concern about diversion of drugs within VA medical facilities, particularly …More
Focus on Discipline at VA Returns, Starting at the Top
The long-running debate has restarted over whether to limit disciplinary notice and appeal rights at the VA, and whether the …More
Agencies Told to Report on Student Loan Reimbursements
OPM has told agencies to report on their calendar year 2016 use of student loan reimbursements, one authority agencies can …More
GSA Announces IT Management Agreement
GSA has announced a new government-wide enterprise software agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software for IT management, including software license …More
Review Could Lead to Consolidations at DoD
Defense Secretary James Mattis has ordered an internal review of business operations across the department “with an explicit goal of …More
Financial Management Conference Scheduled
The Joint Financial Management Improvement Program–a joint program of the Treasury, GAO, OMB and OPM–will hold its annual Federal Financial …More
OPM Seeks Sites for Insurance Presentations
OPM is soliciting federal agencies to host in-person presentations on federal employee insurance benefits, saying it wants to reach “as …More
Labor-Management Cooperation Council in Limbo
The National Council on Federal-Labor Management Relations, the main Obama administration initiative regarding federal unions, has been in limbo in …More
More Disclosure of Regulatory Activities Backed
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has approved and readied for a full House vote HR-1004, the Regulatory Integrity …More
Best Places to Work by Mission Ratings Vary Widely
The Partnership for Public Service has released rankings of the best places to work in government according to the agency’s …More
How Agencies Rank by Mission Area
The highest and lowest-rated agencies in the Partnership for Public Service’s new rankings of best places to work by mission …More
IG Raps “18F” Program on Security Practices
GSA’s highly-touted “18F” program, an IT innovation lab, “routinely disregarded and circumvented fundamental security policies and guidelines,” an IG audit …More
Intelligence Office Starts Crowdsourcing Test
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has announced a multi-year research effort to develop and test “large-scale, structured …More
IG Identifies Questionable Purchase Card, Check Spending at EPA
The inspector general’s office at the EPA said that in a routine annual review of fiscal 2016 spending on purchase …More
Some Temporary Army Buildings Starting to Look Permanent
The Army needs to improve management of its relocatable buildings, some of which have been in place so long that …More
Guidance Issued on Allowable Questions to Job Applicants
OPM has specified exceptions to the new general policy barring agencies from asking job applicants about criminal history or credit …More
DoD Sends Reminder on Sending Surveys
The DoD directives office has said that managers who wish to collect information such as customer satisfaction feedback, should use …More
OGE Explains Reviews of Financial Disclosures
With the annual deadline for filing confidential financial disclosures now having passed, the Office of Government Ethics has posted an …More
FMA Suggests Extending Probationary Periods
Congress should consider extending to other agencies a recent change affecting only DoD that doubles the standard probationary period there …More
Agencies Wasting Money by Doing Own Printing, Says GPO
Federal agencies that still maintain their own operations for printing that need not be done internally would be better off …More
Issues with Skills Gaps, Career Development Raised
Nearly three-fourths of managerial and executive federal employees see critical skills gaps in their organizations, many believe those organizations do …More
GAO Cites Progress on Human Capital Management
GAO has said that one high-risk issues that cuts across agency lines, strategic human capital management, has shown improvement since …More
Probe Sought of EPA Employee Compliance with Records-Keeping
The chairmen of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee and its oversight subcommittee have asked the EPA’s inspector general …More
GAO Finds Some Issues with Purchase Cards
About a fifth of government-wide transactions using purchase cards lack complete documentation to substantiate the approval process, GAO has said. …More
GSA to Hold Acquisition Training Event
GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service will host a two-day training symposium April 25-26 in Huntsville, Ala., offering “acquisition training on GSA …More
More Details Provided on Exceptions to Hiring Freeze
OPM has issued further guidance on the Trump administration’s general hiring freeze, addressing some less common situations not addressed in …More
