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The Council recommended adding Virginia Beach, Virginia and Burlington, Vermont to the list of 47 separate locality pay areas for 2017. It also suggested changing the criteria for establishing and adding new locality pay areas.
November 06, 2015 Bob Tobias, a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at American University, counts down the week's top federal stories with Francis Rose.
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A couple problems have plagued the Homeland Security Department over the years. Its 22 separate agencies have had trouble working together. And, partly as a result, its employees are some of the least satisfied in the government. Enter the Unity of Effort Awards. It's the department's attempt to honor employees who have bridged those gaps. Senior Biodefense Advisor Aaron Firoved is one of eight people who won it for their response to last year's Ebola crisis. He joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin now.
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Civil servants who refuse to answer questions when called to testify before the House of Representatives or the Senate are not exercising civil service protections. They are exercising a constitutional right guaranteed to everyone, says Jeff Neal, senior vice president of ICF International.
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The measure would preserve VA employees' rights to appeal disciplinary decisions, while shortening the appeals process. VA leaders says they do not need another law, while the White House has threatened to veto the bill out of concern for employees' due process rights.
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The Defense Department released the first cybersecurity guidebook to implement a governmentwide risk management framework.
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The Office of Personnel Management has new metrics for reporting its progress on monthly retirement claims. OPM also made a sizable dent in its retirement backlog in October, which dropped by about 2,000 cases.
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Real leadership development takes an agency that is willing to make the investment of time and money needed to build strong supervisors, says Jeff Neal, senior vice president of ICF International.
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The White House ordered a 30-day cyber sprint this summer in response to data breaches at the Office of Personnel Management. They had proven just how vulnerable federal networks are to attacks. Now the White House has a new plan, and that sprint has become a marathon. Ned Miller is chief technology strategist for the Intel Security Group’s Public Sector Division. He joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on this new stage.
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The associate administrator in the Office of Governmentwide Policy and acting chief of staff will become the new federal chief sustainability officer.
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The government started reporting on Hispanics in the federal workforce 14 years ago, because there were so few of them. Today, Hispanics make up 8.4 percent of the workforce, 2 percent more since that first report. Veronica Villalobos calls it "slow but steady" progress. She's the Office of Personnel Management’s principal deputy associate director for employee services. As she tells Federal News Radio’s Emily Kopp, certain things do make a difference.
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Five Department of Veterans Affairs employees were in the hot seat this week as they answered questions on an alleged scandal involving senior officials using an agency program for their personal and financial benefit.
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Customs and Border Protection would be another loser in the legislation before the House. Customs user fees would go to unrelated transportation projects instead.
November 03, 2015
