Hiring/Retention
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The Coast Guard will focus on five areas and then expand if the program is successful.
January 14, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, two House lawmakers want to close what they call are loop holes for senior government officials when they leave federal service for the private sector.
January 13, 2021 -
This fall was a volatile period for federal retirement claims - with a noticeable spike in October and mirroring decline the month after. But December seems to have been when activity more or less calmed down.
January 11, 2021 -
The new service will set up an intelligence center within a year, that will develop from the two core space squadrons.
January 07, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the CIA adds another piece to its two-plus year effort to change the way its recruits the next generation of employees.
January 05, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The Government Publishing Office is out with the latest Plum Book! The Commerce Department IG raises data-quality concerns over 2020 census responses. And the cap on premium overtime pay for certain Secret Service agents is increased.
December 31, 2020 -
The Navy crushed its retention goals for 2020, most likely because of COVID-19.
December 30, 2020 -
Efforts to increase the number of female, minority and disabled employees have taken place across the intelligence community. But in eight years, GAO says results have been lower than federal standards call for.
December 30, 2020 -
A whole swath of professions will lose special pay if Congress can't override the NDAA veto.
December 29, 2020 -
While it does take a bit of work, there are many benefits of working with the federal government to make it all worth it.
December 23, 2020 -
Lawyers for Microsoft and the government are asking a federal court to dismiss key portions of Amazon’s lawsuit over the Defense Department’s JEDI Cloud contract, in a nutshell, because the claims in question were raised too late to be legally viable.
December 21, 2020 -
The Pentagon has endorsed a new slate of initiatives to expand diversity within the ranks and reduce prejudice, including in recruiting, retention and professional development across the force
December 18, 2020 -
VA has paused its near-real-time public reporting of new COVID-19 cases, but as of Dec. 11, the department was tracking 17,757 active cases, including 1,441 VA health care workers with active COVID-19, according to VA's public data.
December 17, 2020 -
The service dropped nearly half of the occupations from its reenlistment bonus list for 2021.
December 16, 2020 -
The Space Force will be the 18th member of the collection of agencies providing national security information.
December 15, 2020