VA Scandal Continues to Weigh on Employee Views
The fallout of the VA scandal, and in particular continued issues with reprisal against employees who made disclosures or cooperated …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersOPM Touts Work-Life Balance Programs
As part of National Work & Family Month, OPM has sent agencies a memo highlighting programs available for them to …More
Final Agency Priority Goals Set
The White House has released what it terms its last set of agency priority goals, 92 of them, before the …More
Report Sees More Potential Use of Scholarship Program
Federal agencies could make better use of a scholarship program designed to create a pipeline of future employees in hard …More
Commerce IG Calls for Culture of Accountability
One of the major management challenges facing the Commerce Department is creating a culture of accountability, its IG has said, …More
Consider Ecosystem in Decisions, OMB Tells Agencies
OMB has told agencies to promote consideration of ecosystem services—which it defined as benefits that accrue from nature such as …More
GSA Leasing Practices Causing Problems for Tenants, GAO Says
Federal agencies that operate in GSA-leased space are paying the price for the continuing issues with how GSA manages those …More
Restrictions on Rehiring Proposed
A newly offered House bill (HR-3724) would bar the IRS from rehiring employees who had substantiated conduct or performance issues …More
GPRAMA Implementation Still Uneven, GAO Says
GAO has summarized a series of reports over the last several years on implementation of the GPRA Modernization Act (GPRAMA), …More
Improvements to Risk Assessments at IRS Facilities Recommended
Because of the nature of its work, the IRS is at risk of violence directed at its employees and facilities, …More
It’s Not Too Early to Brush Up on Holiday Policies, Notice Says
The DoD central ethics office has sent out a reminder about policies governing gift giving among DoD employees and between …More
Management Backed in Furlough Case
A federal court has backed agency management on a major principle underlying the 2013 sequestration furloughs, in a case involving …More
Employees Still Take the Phishing Bait, Audit Finds
In a test whose results might be equally applicable to other agencies, the Postal Service IG found that despite cybersecurity …More
Senate Bill Targets Fraud against Agencies
A newly introduced bipartisan bill in the Senate (S-2133) would require federal agencies to conduct regular fraud risk assessments and …More
EEOC Decides Anonymity Policy Went a Little Too Far
The EEOC has revised a policy aimed at protecting the privacy of federal employees who bring complaints of workplace bias …More
Congress Backs New Advantages to Veterans in Hiring
Both the House and Senate have passed HR-2835, which would create a new form of preference for hiring of veterans …More
Agencies told to Report on Veterans Hiring Results
Meanwhile, OPM has told agencies to submit reports on their activities under the Disabled Veterans Affirmative Action Program by December …More
Warning against Moonlighting in the Workplace Issued
There is an exception to a law generally barring federal employees from working on the side for a contractor in …More
EEOC Rolls Out New FOIA System
The EEOC has launched a new software system designed to speed up and better track its processing of FOIA requests. …More
SSA Struggling with Backlog, Audit Says
The SSA has a long-term goal of reducing the average initial appeals process on disability benefit applications, but that period …More
Permanent Federal Employment Decreasing Slightly
The number of non-seasonal, full-time, permanent federal employees edged downward slightly last year for the third year in a row, …More
IG Questions Extended Duty Travel at Justice
The Justice Department has policies governing extended duty travel (ETDY) but they are outdated, do not assure that such travel …More
Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure Updated
DoD’s Standards of Conduct Office has issued one of its occasional updates to its “Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure,” which while …More
DoD Bill Seeks Further Headquarters Cuts
The annual DoD authorization bill (HR-1735) takes issue with how the department is carrying out a 20 percent reduction in …More
Measure Would Extend, Strengthen DoD Probationary Period
The DoD bill also includes language to extend the probationary period for newly hired DoD employees from one year to …More
Overuse of Social Security Numbers Still a Problem
Addressing an issue that also applies to other agencies, an IG report has said that the IRS continues to over-use …More
Improvement in Engagement Not Universal
OPM is emphasizing a slight overall improvement in employee engagement figure—a top personnel policy of the administration—in the latest results …More
Views of Supervisors, Other Leaders Improve a Little
The survey results also show some general improvement over 2014 in employees’ views of their leaders, both front-line and higher, …More
Leave Records for GSA Employees May Be Inaccurate
GSA cannot be sure that the leave balances for thousands of its employees are accurate, an IG audit has found, …More
OSC Urges More Discipline for Retaliation
The Office of Special Counsel has urged the White House to assure that more disciplinary actions are taken against management …More
