Hiring/Retention

DoD looks to expand Cyber Excepted Service, won’t implement new SSR for IT workforce

The Defense Department says it doesn’t favor adding its workforce to OPM’s new special salary rate for IT and cyber employees, largely for cost reasons….

Federal Report

Colette Peters, director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, speaks after being sworn in at BOP headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

How BOP Director Colette Peters plans to raise employee engagement

Agency Oversight

Former federal warden has ideas for Bureau of Prisons reform

Agency Oversight

AP/Charles Dharapak

FILE - This June 21, 2013, file photo, shows the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. In a federal lawsuit filed this week, U.S. Navy veteran from South Carolina says he ended up with “full-blown AIDS,” because government health care workers never informed him of his positive test result in 1995. He says the test was done as part of standard lab tests at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Columbia, South Carolina. A V.A. spokeswoman says the agency typically does not comment on pending litigation. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

VHA tells facilities to implement most PACT Act workforce authorities by year’s end

Hiring/Retention

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Exclusive

VA opts into Special Salary Rate for IT workforce, regardless of unclear governmentwide rollout

Pay

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businessman holding personal items box ready moving leaving company. concept layoffs.

A long-time federal-employee advocate reacts to the latest civil service reform gambit

Hiring/Retention

The worst place to work in the federal government

Tom Temin Commentary

VHA on track to meet 2023 staffing targets, but House lawmakers urge further hiring reforms

Hiring/Retention

State Dept analytics hub recruiting data scientists to serve as ‘force multiplier’ for diplomacy

Hiring/Retention

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2019, file photo, passengers wait in line at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at the Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. The chief of the TSA said Monday, July 1, that travelers should see only a slight increase in checkpoint wait times over the four-day July 4 holiday weekend despite the diversion of about 350 employees including screeners to the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

A Deeper Look at the TSA

A Deeper Look with Joe Paiva

After OMB’s updated telework guidance, federal unions emphasize role of collective bargaining

Unions

Agencies need to tailor job postings to attract younger workers, government experts say

In today’s Federal Newscast: The latest federal hiring strategy to get the interest of younger applicants. Military service members have a new avenue to…

Federal Newscast

FILE - A USPS employee works outside post office in Wheeling, Ill., Dec. 3, 2021. A government watchdog said says the U.S. Postal Service's environmental evaluation used for purchases of next-generation delivery vehicles relied on some false assumptions. Jill Naamane from the Government Accountability Office told the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday that the analysis used to determine the mix of gas- and electric-vehicles overstated maintenance costs of electric vehicles and relied on gas prices that don’t reflect the current reality. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

USPS sees ‘massive turnover’ in non-career workers as union protests short-staffing

The Postal Service says it’s getting operations on the right track after years of pandemic-related challenges. But the American Postal Workers Union…

Federal Report

Opening up federal contracting jobs for more Americans

Commentary

The Office of Personnel Management, under both the current and previous administration, successfully opened up thousands of federal jobs to more Americans by eliminating unnecessary degree requirements for federal positions for which a formal education is neither required nor a reliable predictor of a candidate’s ability to successfully do the job.