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
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersSpending 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
House Passes Bill to Streamline VA’s Information Technology
The House has voted in favor of the Department of Veterans Affairs Information Technology Management Improvement Act of 2005, which …More
House Passes Appropriations Bill, Includes Telework Provision
The 2006 Science-State-Justice-Commerce Appropriations conference report just passed in the House includes a provision requiring several federal agencies to prove …More
Patent Dispute Threatens U.S. BlackBerry Use
Federal lawyers are seeking to make sure that a patent dispute doesn’t wind up interfering with federal employees’ use of …More
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Coordinator Named
In the race to control the oversight and management of federal response and recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane …More
Recommends Extended Oversight Role for OPM, Other Improvements
The Office of Personnel Management needs to extend its oversight role by addressing the internship trial period as well as …More
MSPB: Career Intern Program Producing Result
The number of employees entering federal service through the Federal Career Intern Program has increased from 400 in 2001 to …More
Telework Solution Aimed at Employee Accessibility and Information Security
The Viack Corporation, a government contractor specializing in secure communications, has released a telework guide that gives an overview of …More
Labor Intensive PART Needs Greater Focus, Says GAO
The Office of Management and Budget’s Program Assessment Rating Tool has fostered scrutiny of program performance, but its “labor-intensive” reviews …More
DoD Hints at Mandatory Removal Offenses
The Defense Department has provided relatively few details–but some hints–as to what types of employee misconduct would warrant being deemed …More
