Bill Would Establish Minimum Qualification Standards for DHS Leadership
Ranking member of the Senate government management oversight subcommittee, Daniel K. Akaka, D-Hawaii, has introduced a bill that would set …More
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As the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission moves forward with its reorganization, the Government Accountability Office has called on the agency …More
Courses Being Offered on Gift-Related Ethics Issues
In the run up to the holiday season, the Office of Government Ethics has announced dates for training in Washington …More
NSPS Court Date Set
The District Court for the District of Columbia has set January 24, 2006, as the hearing date for a union …More
PPS Warns of Imminent Brain Drain
The Office of Personnel Management estimates that among all full-time permanent employees in the federal workforce as of October 2004, …More
Balanced Funding, Cultural Change Required to Transform Airspace System
Transforming the Federal Aviation Administration’s National Airspace System, a complex network of airports, aircraft, air traffic control facilities, employees, and …More
Unions Offer Praise, Decry Lost Opportunity to Give CBP Officers LEO Status
The National Treasury Employees Union said that while the bill resulted in some positive provisions, it represented a lost opportunity …More
House Homeland Security Committee Passes Border Legislation
The House Homeland Security Committee has passed legislation to address border protection problems across the Department of Homeland Security. Introduced …More
Nominees Sought for Awards
The Army is soliciting nominees for two of the most prestigious annual awards for civilian employees working there, the William …More
Student Loan Conference, Call for Info Announced
The Office of Personnel Management has told agencies to submit their annual reports on the use of student loan reimbursement …More
Spending Bill Would Change Contracting Policy
The Transportation-Treasury appropriations bill for fiscal 2006 that is now awaiting President Bush’s signature would scale back in several important …More
Agencies Meet Financial Audit Timeline
For the first time since it was set in 2001, all major federal agencies met the Nov. 15 deadline for …More
Federal Transit Benefits Could Increase, Expand
In August, a proposal introduced by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., to encourage federal employees in the Washington D.C. area to …More
Telework Has New Ally in Soaring Gas Prices
Telework was one answer at a recent hearing before the House federal workforce subcommittee to the question of how to …More
GAO: Education Department Needs Better Planning to Accomplish Project Goals
The Department of Education has made significant progress with its data management initiative, but needs better planning to accomplish project …More
Study Finds Coordination, Other Problems
Among the report’s findings that the senators singled out are a lack of effective coordination between the agencies that led …More
Homeland Security Committee May Consider Merging CBP and ICE
The leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee have said that unless the Department of Homeland Security …More
OPM Seeks Data on Assignment Incentives
The Office of Personnel Management has asked agencies to report by February 16 on their use of extended assignment incentives, …More
Johnson Cites Overseas Operations, Faith Organizations
In his statement on the most recent scorecard, Johnson called attention to success with overseas organizational “rightsizing,” specifically the work …More
Q4 Management Scorecard Released
The administration has released its red-yellow-green management scorecard for the fourth quarter of 2005, rating agencies on the five areas …More
Senate Backs Wider A-76 Appeal Rights
The Senate has approved language to expand the appeals rights of federal employees who stand to lose their jobs as …More
Contracting Restriction at USDA Signed, Others Pending
President Bush has signed into law the fiscal 2006 appropriations bill covering the Agriculture Department (P.L. 109-97), which bars use …More
NSPS Startup Delayed Until February
The Pentagon and a group of unions suing it over the new national security personnel system have reached an agreement …More
GAO Concerned About Strategy for Addressing Security Clearance Problems
The Government Accountability Office has said it is encouraged by the Office of Management and Budget’s commitment to overseeing the …More
OPM, OMB Testify on Joint Plan to Tackle Backlog
Subcommittee chairman George Voinovich, R-Ohio, cited the sheer size of the backlog, an influx of new requests since September of …More
OPM Says It’s Making Progress With Security Clearance Backlog, Delays
The Office of Personnel Management director, Linda M. Springer, has told Congress that after becoming responsible for 90 percent of …More
DHS Announces New Border Strategy
The Department of Homeland Security Secretary has announced a long-term plan to step up border security and reduce illegal migration. …More
Coalition of Unions Seek Court Help on NSPS
With the November 28 target implementation date for the labor relations provisions of the Defense Department’s new National Security Personnel …More
SEA Pushes Consolidated Appeals System
The Senior Executives Association is pushing for a consolidation of the various agencies that hear federal employee appeals into once …More
November 18 New Deadline for USPS Katrina Transfer-Request
The American Postal Workers Union has announced an agreement with the Postal Service to extend the deadline for submitting requests …More
