Various Incentives Being Tried
It said State has offered incentives such as extra pay for serving an additional year at "hardship" posts, has allowed …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersGAO: Foreign Language Shortfalls Remain
Staffing and foreign language shortfalls remain despite initiatives to address gaps and limited progress made in the past few years, …More
NSPS Dispute Heading for More Court Action
A coalition of federal unions will pursue a series of legal motions that could have the effect of further delaying …More
OPM Looking to Expand on CHCOC Training Sessions
Attendance at the chief human capital officers council training academy has tripled in fiscal 2007 with over 300 participants — …More
MSPB: Self-Assessments Overrated, Overused
While employee self-assessments can be useful in some circumstances, agencies too often rely on them to make workforce decisions, the …More
Bill Would Provide Full Salary to Re-Employed Annuitants
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, has introduced a bill that would allow retired federal employees to return to federal service on …More
Calls on CIO and Support Contractors to Establish Performance Standards
GAO called on the bureau’s CIO to work with Sentinel support contractors, where feasible, to establish and implement performance standards …More
GAO Questions Management of FBI Contract Support for Case File System
The FBI has implemented a number of best practices for the case management system it is developing, Sentinel, and looks …More
Guidance on Serving as Job Reference
The Office of Government Ethics has sent out guidance stating that while serving as a reference is a conventional business …More
FAA Inks Union Deal
The FAA has reached an agreement with the National Air Traffic Controllers Association covering 1,200 engineers and architects responsible for …More
New OMB Website to Help Establish Secure IT Configurations
OMB has launched a website designed to help agencies implement secure IT configurations. The site features "virtual machine images" with …More
FDA Suspends Plan to Close Labs
The FDA has postponed a plan to consolidate its labs as part of reorganizing its Office of Regulatory Affairs. The …More
Court: Hazard Pay Doesnt Cover Second-Hand Smoke
The laws and regulations covering environmental pay don’t reach to exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke, the U.S. Court of Federal …More
GSA Contracts go to 29 IT Vendors
GSA has announced 29 companies that will compete for work under the government-wide, Alliant acquisition contract, a centralized source for …More
OMB Focuses on Competitive Sourcing With Latest Scorecard
With bills circulating that would increase oversight of government contracting and improve the position of agency teams forced to compete …More
Senator Calls for GAO Review of SES Performance Payouts
Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., has called for a GAO review of the senior executive performance appraisal process after learning that …More
Finding: Managers Need Better Workforce Management Skills
Nearly all respondents stated that agency managers lack necessary workforce management skills, the report said. It said participants pointed out …More
CHCO Survey Shows Challenges, Concerns
Most chief human capital officers feel that the general schedule should be scrapped in favor of a more performance and …More
Also Passes Contracting Reform Bill
The committee also passed the Accountability in Government Contracting Act of 2007, S-680, which seeks to increase competition and accountability …More
Panel Backs Nussle as OMB Director
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has approved the nomination of former Republican congressman from Iowa, Jim Nussle, …More
House Votes on NSPS, Teleworking
Just before recessing until after Labor Day, the House adopted amendments affecting DoD’s national security personnel system, as part of …More
Appropriators Block FDA Lab Consolidation
In their fiscal 2008 Agriculture spending bills the House and Senate appropriations committees have denied funding for the Food and …More
GAO Calls for Better Integration and Explanation of Mail Processing Changes
The Postal Service needs to better integrate and explain its efforts to realign its mail-processing network, GAO has said. It …More
Union Asks Congress to Step in and Control USPS Privatization
The leader of the American Postal Workers Union asked the Senate federal services subcommittee recently to pass legislation that would …More
GAO: Army Needs “Integrated Strategy” to Implement Asset Visibility System
The Army estimates that it will invest about $5 billion to implement systems to enable it to track and monitor …More
House Passes Customer Service Bill
he House has passed HR-404, which would GAO and OMB to develop metrics of customer service performance to use for …More
Management Agenda Expands
The White House has added to the President’s Management Agenda two new areas where certain departments and agencies will be …More
Decision Challenged on FOIA Grounds
When MSPB sustained the employee’s removal, he appealed on the grounds that the evidence against him was obtained in violation …More
Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Employee for Misuse of Computer
The Federal Circuit U.S. appeals court has upheld a decision by the Merit Systems Protection Board affirming the dismissal of …More
FMA Calls for More SSA Funds
The Federal Managers Association has issued a statement criticizing funding for administrative expenses in the Social Security Administration provided by …More
