Federal Report
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OPM’s pooled hiring notice gives jobseekers the ability to apply once and be considered for several GS-14 data scientist positions across multiple federal agencies.
January 29, 2024 -
NGA's neurodiversity pilot has been an outlier. But other federal agencies are starting to take steps to embrace neurodiverse talent.
January 22, 2024 -
Unelected civil servants mostly work to stay with the law and administrative norms. The Chevron challenge is complicated.
January 18, 2024 -
DoD's overhaul of its system to move servicemembers' goods from place to place was supposed to have been implemented by now. But so far, no major moving companies have signed up.
January 16, 2024 -
After the latest 5.2% federal pay raise, pay compression now applies to 60% of locality pay areas, with some senior-level feds in 35 of the 58 areas hitting an arbitrary pay ceiling.
January 08, 2024 -
Former Bureau of Prisons warden says incentive pay at an Illinois facility should be removed and the staff reduced.
January 04, 2024 -
Although OPM has made various tweaks to the federal pay system — such as removing a cap on higher pay rates, and shifting the onus for approving pay bonuses — broader problems with federal pay remain.
January 01, 2024 -
That 5% pay raise for GS federal employees comes with a 25 pay cut for one small group of Bureau of Prison employees.
December 28, 2023 -
The White House has outlined major initiatives to boost the cyber workforce, with federal agencies leading the charge in adopting "skills-based" hiring.
December 25, 2023 -
How come the accomplishments of the Presidential Rank Award winners aren't shouted from the rooftops?
December 21, 2023 -
Joe Lewis, who joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as its chief information security officer in January 2023, said joining the Senior Executive Service is one of the best decisions he ever made.
December 18, 2023 -
The State Department is honoring Michelle Neyland, a congressional adviser for its Bureau of International Affairs who helped make a pay raise for Domestic Employees Teleworking Overseas a reality.
December 11, 2023 -
Measuring federal office space utilization is incredibly complicated — and it has been that way for quite some time.
December 04, 2023 -
Our readers in Japan respond to a recent Federal News Network interview with the director of the Defense Health Agency -- telling us the civilian employee health care crisis in that country is far from resolved.
November 28, 2023 -
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s latest reports reveal three demographic groups that are behind in both pay and representation in leadership.
November 20, 2023