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Ever see the play Waiting for Godot? It's about two smart guys who sit around for hours waiting for a guy named Godot who never shows up. That's how many feds feel about buyouts.
Whistleblower Aid offers free client services ranging from legal steps to transition assistance to mental health resources.
An interim policy released by the Defense Department keeps transgender troops in the military until a review is finished in February. Then it's up in the air.
Federal employees from other Cabinet agencies can apply to join the Homeland Security Department's Surge Capacity Force, a voluntary program that deploys non-FEMA employees to help with disaster response.
The reorganization plans of three agencies show a trend of consolidating, centralizing back-office functions.
The CIO Council, OPM and OMB are hosting a hiring fair Nov. 6-7 in Maryland.
Social Security, the Veterans Affairs Department and the Office of Personnel Management have one thing in common: a big backlog of applications for what they provide. OPM's National Background Investigative Bureau has a backlog of 700,000. Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president of the Information Technology Industry Council, says this is becoming a national security concern and Congress isn't doing enough to cut it down.
The CIO Council and OPM are hosting an IT workforce jobs fair in November focusing on filling critical IT and cyber jobs for more than 20 federal agencies.
EPA advocates say recovery efforts for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma are proof of how important it is to have a fully-funded public health agency.
Communication and transparency during the government reorganization process is going well for some, and not for others.
The House Oversight Committee passed a bill Wednesday that would allow the Secret Service to raise the salary and overtime pay cap for agents tasked with protecting President Donald Trump and his family.
The Defense Department is asking Congress to make fundamental changes to the up or out system.
New diversity efforts include requiring any open ambassador position to include at least one minority candidate.
Veterans made up slightly more of the federal workforce in fiscal 2016 compared to previous years, but agencies overall hired fewer new veterans to fill government jobs.