Hiring/Retention
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The Office of Management and Budget is ready to start tracking progress on improving performance and accountability. Here's what two departments have done.
February 08, 2018 -
Some proponents of an apolitical civil service argued that what President Trump argued for in his State of the Union address would turn federal workers into at-will employees.
February 06, 2018 -
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) introduced a bill to expand federal expedited hiring authority for military spouses. He hopes the bill will be folded into the 2019 defense authorization bill.
February 06, 2018 -
Trump administration staff turnover has exceed that of the last five presidents. But what does that mean for the government?
February 06, 2018 -
In his first State of the Union, President Donald Trump highlights VA’s success with removing 1,500 employees under the June 2017 law.
January 30, 2018 -
All of the problems that are caused by governing by continuing resolution are still there.
January 22, 2018 -
Grant Schneider, the acting federal chief information security officer, said shared services for cybersecurity can help address the workforce shortage.
January 19, 2018 -
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin gave a progress report on a wide range of initiatives. He told the Senate VA Committee that the department is still making "incremental change" on hiring, appeals modernization, accountability and a new electronic health record.
January 18, 2018 -
One Agriculture Department employee describes how changes to the workforce degrades the agency’s ability to meet its mission.
January 16, 2018 -
The Agriculture Department issued a new policy that requires employees to be in the office at least four days per week thus limiting telework to two days per pay period.
January 16, 2018 -
The Coast Guard has some of the best retention numbers in the military, but how is it doing it?
January 15, 2018 -
Evan Lesser, founder and president of ClearanceJobs.com, joins host Derrick Dortch on this week’s Fed Access to discuss the security clearance backlog and how it is impacting the government workforce. January 19, 2018
January 11, 2018 -
The U.S. Border Patrol must recruit and train 2,729 new agents a year for the next five years, in order to meet the administration's hiring goals and keep up with current attrition.
January 09, 2018 -
The answer to the question in the headline is that we should all care, because it is certainly no way to run a business, or a government.
January 09, 2018 -
Federal News Radio obtained a draft of an executive order seeking to give CIOs new hiring authorities and IT governance.
January 08, 2018