Workforce

• SES group: White House keeping mum on award alternatives

  Last spring, as across-the-board budget cuts roiled through agencies across government, the White House decided to cancel the monetary portion of the Presidential Rank Awards, which granted recipients as much as 35 percent of their salary in a one-time bonus. But the White House maintained it was "focused on finding means to acknowledge excellence in non-monetary ways." The Senior Executives Association (SEA), in a statement released Monday said it still hasn't heard from President Barack Obama on those alternatives.

  Management

  January 13, 2014
• Fun stuff: honoring MLK

  Federal News Radio speaks with Recreation News Editor Marvin Bond about fun things to do in and near the nation's capital.

  Workforce

  January 13, 2014
• 2013 Trends in law enforcement

  National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund Chairman and CEO Craig Floyd, and Jon Adler with the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, will discuss the 2013 Preliminary end of the year fatality report. January 10, 2014

  FEDtalk

  January 10, 2014
• Helping veterans find jobs

  General Gary Profit, senior director of military programs at Walmart, will talk about the company's initiative to hire more veterans. January 10, 2014

  Fed Access

  January 10, 2014
• Report: Budget, training cuts put IRS ‘at risk’

  In an annual report to Congress, the National Taxpayer Advocate, Nina Olson, wrote that the IRS faces "unstable and chronic underfunding that puts at risk the IRS's ability to meet its current responsibilities, much less articulate and achieve the necessary transformation to an effective, modern tax agency."

  Budget

  January 10, 2014
• National Guard worried about growing risk of attrition

  Amid debates about the proper size of the active military versus the reserve component, the National Guard's chief warned his force will lose its best talent if it's not given opportunities to engage in the guard's federal mission.

  Budget

  January 10, 2014
• Uncle Sam’s less-fat, more-muscle plan…

  Want to lose weight, pack on muscle and become more tech savvy? Uncle Sam has this magic plan in the works, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. When approved, it will benefit young and old alike.

  Mike Causey

  January 10, 2014
• Should we replace the General Schedule?

  The General Schedule worked well when half of Federal employees were GS-5 and below and most of the rest of the workforce was spread out over the remaining grades. Today, 7.4 percent of the Federal workforce is GS-5 and below.

  Commentary

  January 09, 2014
• How cold was it? It was so cold that…

  It's been so cold this week that Washington, D.C. has -- temporarily -- lost its title as Wimp City USA. Places like Chicago, Minneapolis and Boston, tough towns, also surrendered to the frigid arctic weather blast, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. So how cold was it?

  Mike Causey

  January 09, 2014
• Officials cite progress in labor-management forums

  Federal-employee unions say they're having more of a voice in the agency decisionmaking process, thanks to a four-year-old directive from President Barack Obama calling for greater collaboration between labor groups and agency leadership. Despite a slow start last year, the creation of partnerships between federal-employee unions and agency leadership — known as labor-management forums — ramped up throughout the course of 2013, according to Bill Dougan, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees.

  Management

  January 08, 2014
• AFGE fights for safety improvements at Selfridge ANG Base – January 10, 2014

  This week on AFGE's "Inside Government" DoD Local 2077 President Jon Suminski details OSHA violations at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan while Witold Skwierczynski, president of AFGE's National Council of Social Security Administration Field Operations Locals, discusses service reductions and field office closures at SSA. Economic Policy Institute Research and Policy Director Josh Bivens also appears.

  Federal Insights

  January 08, 2014
• By the numbers: 2013 federal retirements

  The exodus of employees from the federal workforce was a big story this past year: More federal employees retired in 2013 than the year before, providing grist for the mill for predictions of a coming federal retirement wave. Meanwhile, the Office of Personnel Management's efforts to clear a longstanding backlog of new retirement applications faced hurdles because of the steep sequestration budget cuts that hit government. Federal News Radio parsed through the data over the past year. In the series of charts and graphs below, track the latest trends.

  Workforce

  January 08, 2014
• Army readiness problems will persist through 2020

  Army's top uniformed official said the Ryan-Murray budget agreement is a partial remedy to the difficulties the Army has had in training and equipping its troops. But undoing the damage of sequestration will take at least another six years.

  Budget

  January 08, 2014
• Trends in global defense spending

  Jack Midgley, a director in Deloitte's Global Defense Consulting practice will discuss the findings in the company's recent report on defense spending. January 7, 2014

  Off the Shelf

  January 07, 2014