Hiring/Retention
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The Air Force is still playing catch up in its pilot pipeline despite adding incentive benefits.
September 21, 2017 -
Daniel Payne, the director of the Defense Security Services, said the continuous evaluation program will have 1 million employees by 2018.
September 21, 2017 -
The Trump administration wants to find out how many people work, as in really work, rather than are employed, at the U.N., the State Department and other federal agencies.
September 21, 2017 -
Both the Veterans Affairs and Interior Departments are moving federal employees out of Washington, D.C., and into consolidated regional offices.
September 20, 2017 -
An interim policy released by the Defense Department keeps transgender troops in the military until a review is finished in February. Then it's up in the air.
September 18, 2017 -
The CIO Council, OPM and OMB are hosting a hiring fair Nov. 6-7 in Maryland.
September 18, 2017 -
Social Security, the Veterans Affairs Department and the Office of Personnel Management have one thing in common: a big backlog of applications for what they provide. OPM's National Background Investigative Bureau has a backlog of 700,000. Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president of the Information Technology Industry Council, says this is becoming a national security concern and Congress isn't doing enough to cut it down.
September 15, 2017 -
EPA advocates say recovery efforts for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma are proof of how important it is to have a fully-funded public health agency.
September 13, 2017 -
The House Oversight Committee passed a bill Wednesday that would allow the Secret Service to raise the salary and overtime pay cap for agents tasked with protecting President Donald Trump and his family.
September 13, 2017 -
The Defense Department is asking Congress to make fundamental changes to the up or out system.
September 13, 2017 -
New diversity efforts include requiring any open ambassador position to include at least one minority candidate.
September 12, 2017 -
Veterans made up slightly more of the federal workforce in fiscal 2016 compared to previous years, but agencies overall hired fewer new veterans to fill government jobs.
September 12, 2017 -
Federal HR expert Jeff Neal tells the story of reduction in force he managed at the Department of the Navy — how they planned it, what the RIF accomplished, and why it worked.
September 12, 2017 -
Financial literacy, parental leave and contracting issues are all being addressed by amendments to the 2018 defense authorization bill.
September 11, 2017 -
Leaders in the intelligence community are still performing a balancing act between employee freedom and security issues.
September 07, 2017