Appeals Courts Sends Veteran’s Preference Case Back to MSPB
Citing a liberal pleading standard in allegations of discrimination, the Federal Circuit appeals court has reversed and remanded the Merit …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersGAO: Agencies Behind With FFMIA Compliance, Lack Management Data
Federal agencies continue to have problems producing data needed to manage daily operations and comply with the Federal Financial Management …More
Senators Introduce Bill for Advancing First Responder Communication
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins, D-Maine, and Ranking Member Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., have introduced legislation …More
NAPA Calls for Changes to FBI Human Capital System
“An unwieldy human capital system remains a strong obstacle” to transforming the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a new …More
Waxman Proposes 9-11 Style Commission to Oversee Katrina Contracting
As lawmakers and the administration hash out how reconstruction oversight will be managed – and how agency inspectors general offices …More
DHS Announces Special Audit Office for Katrina Oversight
The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General, Richard L. Skinner, has announced that the department is establishing a new Office …More
Congressmen Propose Katrina IG Council
In the scramble to organize how auditing for the estimated $200 billion Katrina relief and reconstruction effort will be carried …More
Tax Relief on Loans Would Cost, Says CBO
The Congressional Budget Office has released a cost estimate on a bill (HR-1765) awaiting a House floor vote to make …More
DFAS Reducing Paper
The Defense Accounting and Finance Service, which provides payroll services to Defense Department civilian and military personnel and military retirees, …More
AFGE: Defense Won’t Reveal Cost of NSPS
The Department of Defense has declined a request to disclose the cost of implementing its proposed National Security Personnel System, …More
Needs Performance-Based Contracting
The Bureau is relying on contractors to develop the EA, but “it has not employed effective contract management controls,” or …More
FBI Needs to Finalize Blueprint for IT Transition, Says GAO
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has made progress over two years in developing an enterprise architecture for modernizing its IT …More
GSA Raises Mileage Reimbursement Rate
The General Services Administration has announced that it has raised the reimbursement rate for employees using their automobiles for official …More
GAO: Visa Process Would Benefit From Additional Management Actions
The Departments of State and Homeland Security have taken steps since 2002 to strengthen the visa application process, but that …More
Employee Engagement High, but Many Feel Complaints Not Resolved Fairly
The PPS rankings also showed that one out of three federal agencies had higher employee engagement scores than the private …More
PPS Releases “Best Places to Work in Government” Survey Results
Drawing on the Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Human Capital Survey of 150,000 executive branch employees, the Partnership for Public …More
Report Cites How Performance Data Can Improve Results
The report also cited five ways that performance information can be used to improve the results of policy and program …More
GAO Pushes Use of Performance Information, Little Change in Eight Years
Despite reporting having more performance measures in place in 2003 than in 1997, federal managers reported about the same use …More
DoD Implements Comp Time for Travel
The Office of the Under Secretary of the Department of Defense has issued a memorandum implementing compensatory time off for …More
Hazardous Duty and ED Pay for Volunteers
Employees are entitled to hazardous duty pay or environmental differential pay when assigned to duty for which a differential is …More
OPM Issues Addendum to Handbook on Emergency Pay and Leave
The Office of Personnel Management has issued two addendums, one on Fair Labor Standards Act status regarding overtime work and …More
OPM Issues Sample Plan for Administering Emergency Leave Program
The Office of Personnel Management has issued a template- like sample plan that agencies may choose to adopt for administering …More
Faces Long-Standing Challenges
The report said USPTO faces three long-standing challenges that could undermine its efforts, namely, “the lack of an effective strategy …More
GAO Calls for Management Improvements at Patent Office
In summarizing two earlier reports the Government Accountability Office has again called for improvements to the management of Patent Office …More
GAO: Leadership, Internal Controls Key to Managerial Cost Accounting
Leadership and internal controls are key to the successful implementation of managerial cost accounting practices, the Government Accountability Office has …More
GAO Calls for Management Improvements at Patent Office
In summarizing two earlier reports the Government Accountability Office has again called for improvements to the management of Patent Office …More
GAO: Leadership, Internal Controls Key to Managerial Cost Accounting
Leadership and internal controls are key to the successful implementation of managerial cost accounting practices, the Government Accountability Office has …More
OPM Issues Emergency Hiring Authority
The Office of Personnel Management has authorized emergency hiring authorities to respond to Hurricane Katrina. It said excepted one-year appointments …More
OPM Pushes Telework, Fuel Conservation in Response to Hurricane
Both as an effort to conserve fuel and to increase personnel flexibilities – and seizing on the opportunity to promote …More
GAO: Chiropractic Benefit for Active Duty Personnel Has Been Established
The Department of Defense has “generally adhered to the priorities specified” in its implementation plan for making available a chiropractic …More
