Hiring/Retention
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Republicans who want to stave off a midterm majority-party defeat might want to run some numbers on fed voters in their districts.
May 14, 2018 -
If you live and work in Washington long enough, you start running taking people’s — especially politicians', lawyers' and talking heads' — statements, actions and facts through your own filter.
May 11, 2018 -
Some politicians think the at-will hiring system is so good and works so well they want to extend it to federal civil servants in the executive branch.
May 10, 2018 -
Recent proposals to change the existing federal retirement system are just the beginning of coming recommendations from the Office of Personnel Management.
May 09, 2018 -
Not everyone is seeing an even distribution when it comes to women in federal IT. Some areas of technology remain a boys’ club.
May 09, 2018 -
The House Veterans Affairs Committee also signed off on a clear oversight process for VA's electronic health record modernization project, plus several other pieces of new legislation.
May 08, 2018 -
The Air Force 1st Special Operations Wing is favoring group training over computer-based classes.
May 07, 2018 -
While some feds genuinely appreciate the efforts during Public Service Recognition Week, many said the efforts seem insincere.
May 07, 2018 -
New Office of Personnel Management Director Jeff Pon detailed his vision for OPM and its role in modernizing 40-year-old statutes that govern how agencies recruit, retain, compensate and manage federal employees.
April 30, 2018 -
Public Service Recognition Week kicks off on May 6 and we want to take the temperature of the federal workforce.
April 27, 2018 -
Frustrated by collegiate recruiting, the FBI experiments with getting high school students involved via summer internships.
April 27, 2018 -
The 150-member Republican Study Committee has listed its budget priorities for 2019, calling for eliminating all automatic pay raises for federal workers, and increasing their contributions to their own retirement. The conservative group's also wants to make it easier for federal employees to be fired.
April 27, 2018 -
The Defense Department's review of its current personnel authorities is late, but House lawmakers say they're still some recruitment and retention challenges they want to tackle in next year's authorization act.
April 25, 2018 -
The director of the Office of Personnel Management said he wants to restore the importance of the Chief Human Capital Officers Council. Jeff Pon has asked agency and department heads to put very senior level representatives on the council that strategizes human resource policy for government employees.
April 24, 2018 -
While there was a lot of talk about reform, it may take longer than some expected to overhaul the military personnel system.
April 23, 2018