Workforce Rights/Governance
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VA Accountability Act of 2015, would extend the probationary period for new employees to at least 18 months from the current 12. All employees would have a shorter window in which to appeal their firing or demotion.
July 15, 2015 -
Bridget Lynn Roddy, the Virtual Student Foreign Service program manager at the State Department, is nominated for a Service to America Medal.
July 15, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management has already announced plans to provide up to three years of identity theft protection for the more than 21 million people involved in its massive data breach. But several U.S. senators are saying that's not good enough. The Senate delegations from Maryland and Virginia are jointly sponsoring legislation that pay for protection services for breach victims for the rest of their lives — and grant them $5 million insurance policies against identity theft. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) is one of the sponsors. He tells In Depth guest host Jared Serbu that the services OPM's offering aren't enough.
July 14, 2015 -
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has ordered a six-month study aimed at formally ending one of the last gender- or sexuality-based barriers to military service, saying the Pentagon's current regulations banning transgender individuals from serving in the military need to be examined.
July 14, 2015 -
Ensuring effective office space accommodations for people with disabilities necessitates increased understanding of what accommodations really are, says the Labor Department's Jennifer Sheehy. And that starts with the words we use.
July 14, 2015 -
Is your government job a calling, just a living or a joke? Federal News Radio Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says for many long suffering feds laughter truly is the best medicine.
July 13, 2015 -
Budget cuts totaling $1.1 billion over the past five years impacted nearly every fact of the Internal Revenue Service's mission. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says IRS officers answered 25 percent fewer taxpayer phone calls over past four years. And the agency closed 34 percent fewer cases. Computer network downtime topped nearly 66-thousand hours. Matthew Weir is an assistant IG for the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the kinds of work automated service collection contact representatives and field collection officers do and how it's suffered.
July 09, 2015 -
For the first time the Combined Federal Campaign will try to generate excitement and participation among that newest class of feds -- teleworkers. Federal News Radio Senior Correspondent Mike Causey explores.
July 09, 2015 -
The Defense Department’s new personnel chief has two months to go before he delivers a set of recommendations to overhaul DoD’s HR system. But he’s made clear that among his top priorities is to ensure longer tenures for military officers and that moving people from job to job every one or two years is a bad management strategy. Federal News Radio’s DoD reporter Jared Serbu has the details.
July 07, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management is encouraging agencies to improve assessments to foster a more balanced workplace for employees.
July 03, 2015 -
With the e-QIP system shutdown for four-to-six weeks, OPM and ODNI told agencies to get hard copies of the forms from new hires, or employees or contractors needing reinvestigations.
July 03, 2015 -
Quick quiz: Who was known as the terrible swift sword of the civil service? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says you'll know if you were a fed in the 1980s.
July 02, 2015 -
Members of the Senior Executive Service report much higher satisfaction at their agencies than the employees who work for them, according to a new report.
July 01, 2015 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA is failing to hire and promote enough minorities despite years of vowing to do so, Director John Brennan said Tuesday, announcing a new effort to tackle the problem of a…
July 01, 2015 The next step in the debate over the OPM cyber breaches may happen in court. The largest federal employee union is suing the Office of Personnel Management. Federal News Radio Reporters Emily Kopp has on the details of the suit.
June 30, 2015