Workforce Rights/Governance
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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?
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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 -
More than three years after the General Services Administration’s infamous Las Vegas conference featuring clowns, mind readers and bike-building morale exercises, federal employees are still feeling the effects of strict policies designed to prevent a repeat. In many cases, those policies mean several layers of agency approval before feds are allowed to attend any conference. Several science and technology organizations are telling agency leaders and Congress that those policies are a serious overcorrection to over-the-top agency conferences of years gone by, and they’re hindering the careers of federal scientists and other professionals. Dr. Sandra Magnus, executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, talked with Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the dropoff in conference attendance by federal employee and why she thinks the oversight pendulum has swung too far.
December 18, 2015 -
The agency has been at the forefront of teleworking since it consolidated its headquarters in 2011 — moving to Fort Meade, Maryland. But a new director is in charge now and wants to shake things up in a way that DISA employees are pretty unnerved about. Federal News Radio reporter Scott Maucione got the scoop on the forthcoming changes to DISA's telework rules and he joined Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about it. Read Scott's exclusive story.
December 16, 2015 -
Maj. Gen. Linda Urrutia-Varhall is the Air Force's assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. She's one of the most senior female officers in the U.S military and throughout her career, she's been the first woman in most of the jobs she held as she rose though the ranks of the Air Force. But Urrutia-Varhall said that particular distinction wasn't something she paid much attention to over the last 30 years. In a recent appearance on Federal News Radio’s Women of Washington, Urritia-Varhall talked about her career and why many women in the military opt-out of career paths that could lead to high-ranking jobs like the one she holds now.
December 16, 2015 -
Federal employees are a bit happier with their jobs than a year ago. A bit. The latest Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey shows a 1 percent increase. Tim McManus is vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, which compiled the numbers. He told Federal Drive with Tom Temin not to discount that importance of 1 percent, even if there's still a long way to go.
December 14, 2015 -
Lots of members of Congress and even some in the Pentagon look at that big north parking lot and think one thing: What a payroll. The question of bloated headquarters staff seems resistent to efforts to cut it. But now the 2016 Defense Authorization bill calls on DoD to cut 30 percent of its staff over the next four years. Federal News Radio's Scott Maucione shares more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 14, 2015 -
Based on the work of two study groups, the Pentagon is likely to ask Congress to revise two key statutes underlying its personnel management system for military officers: the Goldwater-Nichols Act and the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act.
December 10, 2015 -
While a continuing resolution seems likely in the waning days of the short-term spending bill the government is currently operating under, federal employees once again have found themselves looking over their shoulders for any sign of a shutdown.
December 10, 2015