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As the IRS looks to implement its new long-term strategy and sees a spending boost on the horizon from Congress, David Kautter, the agency's acting commissioner, plans to hire 1,700 full-time additional employees ahead of next year's tax filing season.
The Homeland Security Department says there are limitations to the administration's push to reskill current federal employees for new jobs. DHS says it supports continuing education, but it's looking to public-private partnerships to ingest new talent into the agency.
The federal government is chock full of chief information officers, chief financial officers and chief human capital officers. But as it stands, there are only a handful of chief customer officers
The private sector can bring perks and pay many feds only dream of, but a recent report by the Federal Reserve Board, indicated life outside the federal fold is not always a bed of roses.
The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to fully roll out eApp as a replacement to current Election Questionnaires for Investigations Processing (e-QIP) system toward the end of the fiscal year.
My concern with respect to these executive orders is that they make civil service reform less likely. There are many areas where agreement between the right and left is a possibility. The issue of labor relations is not high on that list.
The Pentagon says its new approach to civilians is a "significant shift" that will eliminate "arbitrary caps" on how many it employs.
Republican politicians might be making a big mistake in writing off federal workers and retirees, and Democrats might make an equally big mistake by taking them for granted.
Compared to the private sector, the federal government, as a whole, ranks down toward the bottom of a new customer service scorecard.
The executive order directs agencies to renegotiate union contracts and suggests that agencies set more concrete time limits for these discussions.
The National Treasury Employees Union is also suing the president and Office of Personnel Management Director Jeff Pon over recent executive orders.
The Air Force is expanding its STEP program to 180 enlisted airmen with high potential.
Benefits expert Tammy Flanagan makes the case for a centralized retirement counseling service.
Politicians who want to reduce the cost of the federal retirement and labor-management programs say they are doing it for the most noble reasons.