Hiring/Retention
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After a decade of on-and-off pay and hiring freezes and clampdowns on headquarters staff, Congress may be moving in the opposite direction.
December 31, 2019 -
For much of the federal workforce in 2019, what employees thought they knew about their pay, benefits, workplace flexibilities and even the location of their offices in some cases, were in flux.
December 27, 2019 -
Federal agencies will face a slew of New Year’s resolutions in 2020, now that the Trump administration has released the final draft of its Federal Data Strategy.
December 23, 2019 -
The Office of Personnel Management says agencies struggle to recruit former employees who have left government and gained additional skills. New regulations that OPM will propose would give agencies the discretion to recruit top talent back with a promotion.
December 23, 2019 -
Shane Barney, the chief Information Security Officer at USCIS, and Togi Andrews, the CISO at FEMA, say automation and reskilling of the workforce is part of how they are evolving their security operations centers.
December 20, 2019 -
The 2020 spending bills urge the Social Security Administration to reinstate its telework program for operations employees, but they're silent on collective bargaining protections and funding for the Bureau of Land Management's upcoming relocation.
December 18, 2019 -
The defense undersecretary for personnel and readiness position has been largely vacant for the past five years. Is it too big for one person?
December 18, 2019 -
Try getting employees on board before yanking an agency 1,000 or 2,000 miles away.
December 17, 2019 -
Though the latest Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings show the resiliency of agencies in the face of a tumultuous 2019, they also point to some unsettling signs for organizations facing reorganization and relocation.
December 17, 2019 -
The Congressional Budget Office's price tag on paid parental leave does not take into account employee turnover.
December 16, 2019 -
Matthew Cornelius left the Office of Management and Budget after almost three years to become the executive director of the Alliance for Digital Innovation (ADI), an industry association, while USDA, OPM and the FCC gain new senior executives.
December 10, 2019 -
Evan Lesser, founder and president of ClearanceJobs.com, joins host Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access to discuss what the federal government is doing to speed up the process for workers seeking security clearances.
December 06, 2019 -
The Census Bureau will soon select 50 employees to participate in the program's first cohort, which will begin coursework in January.
December 03, 2019 -
Officials considering federal telework program changes first might want to check the press clippings about the Social Security Administration’s decision, or read results of a survey of Education Department workers.
December 03, 2019 -
The Education Department changed its telework policy last year, requiring most employees to show up to the office at least four days a week, which the agency justified as an effort to “enhance collaboration."
November 28, 2019