Management
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In today's Federal Newscast, agencies have a little more guidance now on how they're supposed to implement the president's recent federal hiring executive order.
September 28, 2020 -
Most federal chief data officers have experience with their organizations, but that doesn't always mean they know where they stand.
September 25, 2020 -
A federal judge has stopped the 2020 census from finishing at the end of September
September 25, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, medical centers at the Department of Veterans Affairs see a slight improvement in staffing shortages over the last year.
September 25, 2020 -
Agencies are often reassigning members of the Senior Executive Service with little oversight, the Government Accountability Office found. And the Office of Personnel Management, which has the authority to crack down on agencies when they fail to reassign SES members properly, said enforcement isn't a major priority.
September 24, 2020 -
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is defending operational changes at the Postal Service made before and during his tenure that have been put on hold by several federal judges within the past week.
September 24, 2020 -
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wants to make sure the education of staff practitioners doesn't stop because of the pandemic.
September 24, 2020 -
The government has trouble acquiring information technology on budget and according to what it hopes to accomplish. When a project starts to go off the rails, the agency simply rebases it.
September 24, 2020 -
IGs on the committee continue to send up red flags on COVID-19 spending. SBA's IG office, for example, recently issued management alerts warning of billions of dollars potentially exposed to fraud.
September 24, 2020 -
Last year a team of federal investigators, as part of the national effort to mitigate the opioid crisis, indicted 73 licensed medical practitioners for enabling the addiction crisis in Appalachia.
September 23, 2020 -
Democrats and Republicans in a bitterly divided U.S. House have voted to take a government shutdown off the table this fall, giving a big, bipartisan vote to a temporary government-wide funding bill Tuesday night
September 22, 2020 -
President Donald Trump has issued an order that he said will expand a ban on the use of federal money for certain diversity training
September 22, 2020 -
Speaking in favor of the latest iterations of racial sensitivity and inclusion training, the president of the Professional Managers Association Chad Hooper.
September 22, 2020 -
Few White House memos have sparked as much debate as the one telling agencies to stop presenting certain forms of training related to racial diversity and inclusion.
September 22, 2020 -
A federal judge has ordered USPS to come up with a plan by Oct. 1 to improve on-time mail performance consistent with levels from earlier this year.
September 22, 2020