Hiring/Retention
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The Economic Development Administration, part of the Commerce Department, awarded the grants under a program called the good jobs challenge.
August 17, 2022 -
The Postal Service, as it prepares for the latest effort to consolidate its delivery network, is pulling the plug on pending work from its last attempt that began nearly a decade ago.
August 15, 2022 -
Public polling shows a continuing decline in Americans' trust in government. One indicator is the number of Americans who would urge their kids to pursue a government career.
August 15, 2022 -
Also in today's Federal Newscast, murdered Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen's family files a $35 million lawsuit, and GSA is offering some new help to agencies to improve cybersecurity.
August 15, 2022 -
The National Association of Letter Carriers and the American Postal Workers Union are calling for USPS to increase hiring, adding that long-term understaffing is taking a toll on employee morale.
August 12, 2022 -
IG offices now have the ability to use a new tagging option when publishing documents to Oversight.gov, to flag reports related to DEIA issues.
August 11, 2022 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to grow its health care workforce with new pay incentives and retain the in-demand employees it already has, now that a major VA health care bill has been signed into law.
August 10, 2022 -
The military has a recruiting problem. That fact has been on display in the past couple months as all of the military services bolster enlistment bonuses and reevaluate their end strength goals for 2022 and 2022.
August 09, 2022 -
A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives, titled the Public Service Reform Act, is not about public service and is certainly not reform. Rather than addressing accountability or hiring and pay challenges, the bill would make all federal workers at-will employees. The result would be a civil service that is little more than two million political appointees.
August 09, 2022 -
The Inflation Reduction Act would give the Postal Service $1.29 billion to purchase electric vehicles, and $975 million to GSA to support emerging sustainable technologies.
August 09, 2022 -
CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility aims to hire hundreds of staff over the next year to investigate use-of-force incidents and other potential misconduct at the law enforcement agency.
August 08, 2022 -
Average processing times continue to rise, which kept the backlog of retirements claims 29,224 in July.
August 08, 2022 -
Each year the VA's Office of Inspector General looks at whether the agency has what are known as severe occupational staffing shortages. It's had mixed results recently.
August 05, 2022 -
The latest study of federal employee attrition rates depicts a stable workforce
August 05, 2022 -
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes the single largest investment of water infrastructure ever in federal government, and the EPA wants to get the funds out appropriately.
August 04, 2022