GAO Sees Difficulties in Converting Air Traffic Control
A proposal that has passed a House committee to convert air traffic control functions of the FAA into a corporate-type …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersAcquisition Gateway Partly Opened to Public
GSA has partially opened for public view its Acquisition Gateway, a site that provides federal employees involved in procurement with …More
MSPB Backs Employee on Revoking Settlement
The MSPB has agreed that a federal employee was within her rights to revoke a settlement agreement she had reached …More
Guidance Issued on Onboarding Programs
OPM has issued guidance to agencies on another aspect of the recent presidential order on the SES, relating to the …More
Further Restrictions Considered on SES Rights at VA
A move is planned in Congress to further extend restrictions on appeal rights for SES members at the VA–with the …More
Council Cites Success Stories, Lessons Learned
The National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations has posted on its site a document with two dozen examples of collaboration …More
Budget Updates Status of Labor Council
One of the supporting documents to the White House’s recent budget request contains an overview of the National Council on …More
SES-Related Initiatives Also Cited
The budget document also contains an update on several initiatives involving the SES, including the recently announced policies to increase …More
IRS Touts Tightened Management Controls
Management issues that made the IRS the target of numerous congressional and other investigations are being addressed, commissioner John Koskinen …More
Leave, Several Other Bills Advance
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has approved S-2450, to restrict the use of administrative leave in the …More
Two Departments Get Some Praise on Leave
One of the sponsors of the administrative leave bill–and one of the main critics of agency practices–Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, …More
DHS Acquisition, Other Reforms Advance
The Senate governmental affairs panel also approved a House-passed bill, HR-3572, designed to improve the accountability, standardization, and transparency of …More
Barriers to Telework Decreasing, OPM Says
Traditional barriers to having federal employees telework—prominent among which has always been resistance of managers—are decreasing as the program continues …More
Compliance with 2010 Act Called Improving
The report said that agencies are continuing to improve their compliance with a 2010 law that required agencies to establish …More
USPS Gets Mixed Review on Responsiveness
The Postal Service received a mixed review of its responsiveness to questions from Congress in a recent IG report on …More
OPM Proposes New Human Capital Framework
OPM has proposed an overhaul of the framework for managing federal personnel policy, including describing workforce planning methods that agencies …More
Employee Survey Questions Also Proposed
The rules also would prescribe 11 questions to be asked in annual employee surveys with a specific emphasis on views …More
OPM Solicits Rank Awards Nominations
OPM has put out a call to agencies submit nominations by April 4 for the fiscal 2016 Presidential Rank Awards, …More
Budget Lays Out Agency Management Priorities
The Obama administration’s budget proposal continues several initiatives on federal agency management while citing progress made so far in areas …More
Budget Seeks Cybersecurity Personnel, Funding Improvements
One special emphasis of the budget from both a personnel and spending aspect is cybersecurity, where the White House announced …More
New Interagency Privacy Council Created
President Obama has issued an executive order creating a Federal Privacy Council to set policies for agencies for collecting, maintaining …More
Better Tracking of Official Time Proposed
Legislation (HR-4392) offered in the House would require OPM to produce an annual report on use of official time by …More
Other Union Policies Also Targeted
Separately, another House proposal (HR-4461), from Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., would revamp several long-standing labor-management practices in …More
Stick to Schedule on Regs, Agencies Told
OMB has told agencies that as the Obama administration draws to a close over the next year, they should stick …More
DHS Lacks Oversight of Training, Says GAO
Among the difficulties still facing DHS following its creation more than a decade ago from nearly two dozen agencies and …More
Order Sets Safety Standards for Federal Buildings
President Obama has issued an executive order designed to better protect federal buildings, and the workers in them, against risks …More
OPM Orders Reports on Employee Claims
OPM has told agencies to report on their procedures for handling claims from their employees over leave and compensation, disputes …More
Grants Closeout Act Signed into Law
President Obama has signed into law S-1115, the Grants Oversight and New Efficiency Act, a bipartisan measure that will require …More
Agencies Missing Out on Excess DoD Property, GAO Says
The procedures used for disposing of property that DoD considers excess results in some property that other agencies could use …More
