Hiring/Retention
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Despite persistent hiring challenges at Customs and Border Protection, Accenture Federal Services said the recruiting and customer service centers it built as part of its multi-million dollar contract with CBP will set the agency up for future success.
March 08, 2019 -
A State Department program is designed to bring in people from high paying jobs in the private sector, but according to Jenna Ben-Yehuda of the Women's Foreign Policy Network, that has the potential to widen a gender pay gap.
March 08, 2019 -
A top Senate Democrat said the Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pensions accounts to help President Donald Trump pay for his long-sought border wall.
March 07, 2019 -
Automatic General Schedule step increases, the lengthy federal hiring process and the retirement supplement for certain employees are among the issues Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) has highlighted in his annual waste book.
March 05, 2019 -
The Defense HR Activity released a RFI seeking industry input across areas like software to recruit, retain and train employees or new approaches to performance management and for identifying competencies.
March 04, 2019 -
The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act required the armed services to report to Congress the required numbers and readiness levels of medical and dental personnel but there's disagreement by Pentagon overseers with estimates.
March 04, 2019 -
Whether or not Congress resurrects the defunct Office of Technology Assessment, the head of the Government Accountability Office says his agency plans to increase its capacity to oversee technology issues.
February 28, 2019 -
DoD needs to be careful if it decides to cut 17,000 medical jobs.
February 27, 2019 -
Three years after Congress gave DoD permission to set up a separate personnel system to attract cyber talent, officials say they're on the verge of an "exponential" increase in usage of the Cyber Excepted Service.
February 27, 2019 -
Owning marijuana stocks is still considered drug involvement for those with security clearances.
February 26, 2019 -
The Air Force will send nondeployable airmen to administrative separation or to disability evaluation. However, there are many exemptions to the policy.
February 26, 2019 -
Roughly 39 percent of federal employees said they were "unprepared" or "very unprepared" for the recent government shutdown, according to a survey from Clever Real Estate.
February 22, 2019 -
The National Science Foundation is looking for concrete, technological ideas through the Career Compass Challenge that it could pilot broad reskilling effort across the federal workforce. But NSF also sees the challenge as a potential spark for culture change.
February 21, 2019 -
Employer branding is one of the chief battlefields in the fight for talent. The government is not well-positioned for that fight.
February 21, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a federal retiree who says the state of West Virginia unfairly taxed his annuity income.
February 21, 2019