OMB Highlights Personnel, Management Requirements in Current Budget Year
OMB has reminded federal agencies about requirements related to personnel and other management matters in the recently enacted budget measure …More
OMB has reminded federal agencies about requirements related to personnel and other management matters in the recently enacted budget measure …More
The GAO has repeated in a House hearings concerns it raised in a report last year on the VA’s oversight …More
The Justice Department should improve the transparency of the process for hiring immigration judges, said an IG report which however …More
In its first ruling involving the Hatch Act since it regained its quorum to again issue decisions, the MSPB board …More
The Partnership for Public Service has launched an “agency performance dashboard” which pulls together workforce and other data on major …More
The inspector general’s at the EPA has recommended that the agency strengthen controls for detecting and removing unapproved software on …More
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has approved nominees for the inspector general position at OPM and four …More
Public Service Recognition Week this year will be May 1-7, with events to include a May 2 online presentation on …More
A general return of teleworking federal employees to their regular worksites is “long overdue,” the top two House Republicans on …More
OPM has told agencies to report by May 13 on their fiscal 2021 performance ratings and the resulting performance-based pay …More
The Biden administration’s budget includes $300 million for the interagency Technology Modernization Fund to provide up-front funding for upgrading cybersecurity …More
The White House’s fiscal 2023 budget proposal seeks to “refresh” the Federal Executive Board Program, including creating a central $10 …More
The Biden administration’s budget proposal projects growth in federal employment in fiscal 2023 over current-year levels of 82,300 positions—3.6 percent—with …More
The White House budget proposal says that long-running demographic trends in the federal workforce are continuing, including a shift to …More
With two of its three seats now filled, the MSPB board has issued its first decision in more than five …More
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved S-3492, which would boost professional training programs at the State Department with a …More
A report for Congress has suggested possible strategy changes for managing agency cyber supply chain risks, including consolidating oversight that …More
The inspector general’s office at the IRS again has raised issues with the agency’s program in which some tax debt …More
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has approved S-2433, which would require Agriculture and Interior to produce an inventory …More
An IG report has called for tighter controls over employee leave at the IRS after finding lack of documentation and …More
The public has a higher opinion of federal employees than it does of the government in general, according to a …More
The VA has started “reentry” of employees who have been mainly or exclusively teleworking to a hybrid of onsite and …More
Legislation offered in the House would update and expand authorities of agency chief financial offices in what would be the …More
OPM has issued a call to agencies for fiscal 2021 data on the diversity of their workforces for three separate …More
The House Education and Labor Committee has passed HR-2499, to provide that heart disease, lung disease, and specified cancers are …More
OPM has issued a “Pathways to the Senior Executive Service Toolkit” for agencies to use in hosting Executive Women in …More
The Justice Department has issued new guidance to agencies on compliance with the Freedom of Information Act, stressing that the …More
A bill has been offered HR-7095 in the House to put into law executive orders issued during the Trump administration …More
OPM has told agencies to report by March 31 on the “physicians comparability allowance,” a form of recruitment/retention incentive payment …More
DHS has found little evidence of domestic violent extremism in its own workforce, although the review added that the department’s …More