Agencies Prodded to Publicize Banned Personnel Practices
The Office of Special Counsel has sent a letter to many agencies reminding them that under a 2014 White House …More
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Republican leaders on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have written to more than two dozen departments and large …More
SSA Touts Less is More Approach to FAQs
The SSA is touting the results of redesigning the FAQ section of its website, which included reducing the number of …More
SES Makeup Continues Slow Change
Women and minorities continue to be under-represented in the senior executive ranks in comparison with the federal workforce and with …More
Report Cites Useful Retention Tool
The demographics report cites agency practices in hiring but also cites the Defense Security Service as a model for retention—what …More
New Strategic Plan on the Way
OPM also said that during this year that it will release a “second generation” Government-Wide Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan. …More
GAO Asked to Review Security Practices
The bipartisan leaders of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have asked GAO to evaluate how well agencies have …More
Closer Look at IRS Hiring Practices Requested
The IRS inspector general’s office has been asked to take another look at whether the agency has indeed stopped rehiring …More
Workshops on Workplace of Future Scheduled
A series of two-day workshops on space management and labor relations will be held in Boston, Chicago, Denver, and Los …More
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
Acquisition 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
