Workforce Rights/Governance
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Joe Carson, a 31-year federal employee and a prevailing whistleblower, explains why he believes the U.S. Office of Special Counsel withdrew its rule about contractor whistleblower disclosures.
January 18, 2016 -
Katie Maddocks, deputy director of Government Affairs at the Federal Managers Association, joins host Mike Causey to discuss the Wounded Warrior project, the OPM data breach, and more. January 13, 2016
January 12, 2016 -
Some federal employee groups and committee Democrats are taking issue with a series of bills under consideration at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The legislation largely targets accountability issues among Senior Executives and career appointees.
January 12, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management is hosting a limited enrollment period in February for federal employees who want to switch their benefits options to self-plus-one.
January 11, 2016 -
Navy officials told lawmakers facilities sustainment cuts have hurt personnel services and building modernization efforts.
January 08, 2016 -
The budget deal cuts $250 million in civilian headquarters and mandates a report from the inspector general.
January 06, 2016 -
Behind the 435 members of the House and 100 members of the Senate, you'll find a small army of Capitol Hill staff employees. They do everything from walk members' dogs during holidays to detailed analyses of complex programs. For a couple of centuries these denizens of the Hill got few of the legal workplace protections received by their executive branch counterparts. That changed 20 years ago when Congress established the Office of Compliance. Barbara Camens, chairman of the board of directors of the Office of Compliance, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a retrospective and look ahead.
January 04, 2016 -
For lots of people in the Washington area, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says this is just another day at the office. So what are they doing?
January 01, 2016 Tune into Fed Access to hear Stratfor's Sim Tack and Tristan Reed discuss the civil war in Syria, the Syrian refugee crisis, and how governments and businesses are doing in protecting themselves from cyber attacks. December 25, 2015
December 25, 2015-
Most people have heard of the Greatest Generation, but Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says there are some pretty great people still on the job today.
December 25, 2015 -
Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says he plans to begin divesting the Joint Staff of some of its current responsibilities after the start of the new year.
December 24, 2015 -
The Defense Department has grown its acquisition work force by 26,000 over the last few years. But it's not enough, according to the Government Accountability Office. Auditors found six of the 13 acquisition career fields didn't meet growth goals. Tim DiNapoli, director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management at GAO, spoke with Federal News Radio's Eric White about the DOD's workforce issues on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 22, 2015 -
Across the federal government, there's quite a bit of agency-by-agency variation in the number of workers who choose to participate in the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. But some agencies are finding that they can boost their response rates pretty significantly by offering incentives to complete the survey. Do those incentives unfairly bias the results? Jeff Neal says there's no evidence for that, and agencies should want to see the highest response rates they can get on the survey. Neal is a former chief human capital officer at the Department of Homeland Security. He wrote a column on the subject. He talked with Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the types of incentives agencies can and can't offer.
December 21, 2015 -
Higher performance bonus caps and new language on basic pay rates for the Senior Executive Service in President Barack Obama's executive order are largely earning praise from the federal manager community. But other initiatives in the order are bringing up more questions than answers. John Salamone is a former executive director of the Chief Human Capital Officer's Council and now vice president at Federal Management Partners. He told Federal News Radio's Nicole Ogrysko not everything in the order is brand new. She shares that with Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 21, 2015 -
A small change in settlement authorities is making a big difference for the federal equal employment opportunity complainant process.
December 21, 2015