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In today's Federal Newscast: The President's Management Agenda sets agency goals for training and supplier diversity, among others. Seventy House lawmakers push for billions of dollars for the Social Security Administration. And the Senate confirms a new Defense Department IG.
About one quarter of 2022 FEVS respondents said they'd consider leaving their position based on their agency's current telework or remote work options.
Although low pay is the most common barrier to retaining federal wildland firefighters, the Government Accountability Office said other factors like poor-work life balance and career advancement challenges also impact the workforce.
DOJ GEN’s call to OPM to fully ban the use of salary history in federal hiring and pay-setting unearths larger issues with the federal pay system as a whole.
In today's Federal Newscast: OPM is urged to disallow salary history in both the hiring and pay-setting processes. The VA is taking corrective action after disclosing the vaccination status of more than half a million employees. And the Secret Service gets some new cybersecurity advice.
The National Finance Center just implemented a multifactor authentication system for agencies to access employee payroll data, and more cybersecurity updates are still ahead.
The Federal Salary Council reported that federal pay fell further behind private sector pay, from a pay gap of 22.47% in 2021 to 24.09% in 2022.
The Postal Service, like nearly every federal entity, has strict legal limits on how much executives can get paid. There are a few exceptions though.
The American Federation of Government Employees held a rally on Oct. 26 to raise concerns about a workforce in “crisis” at the Social Security Administration.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeing a surge of applicants applying for open positions as the agency looks to expand its workforce.
Agencies have until Nov. 18 to submit review and recommendation materials for any special pay rate requests for 2023.
Victims of one of the largest data breaches to ever hit the federal government are one step closer to a payout, more than seven years later.
Several agencies, looking to address a long-term cyber workforce shortage in the federal government, are proposing a new pay model to attract these in-demand workers to public service.
IRS surge team employees will need to continue their work cutting down the agency's pandemic-era backlog of tax returns through the end of the year, but are getting a $1,000 onetime bonus for their efforts.