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The Defense Department says it doesn't favor adding its workforce to OPM's new special salary rate for IT and cyber employees, largely for cost reasons. But it does want to expand its own special pay system known as the Cyber Excepted Service.
All week the Federal Drive has examined the Bureau of Prisons, which ranks as, "The Worst Place to Work in the Federal Government," according to the annual listing derived from employee viewpoint survey results and compiled by the Partnership for Public Service. To finish the series, Federal Drive host Tom Temin talks with Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters, who has been on the job for almost a year
Tom starts with the notion that the federal correctional facility is the basic unit in the Bureau of Prisons. Tom's guest is a corrections consultant, who served in the Senior Executive Service and as warden of ADX Florence, the system's most secure prison. The Colorado facility is also known as Super Max.
The VA is setting a systemwide goal to have every network using at least half of PACT Act hiring authorities implemented by the end of the year.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is rolling out a new pay model for its IT and cybersecurity employees later this year — whether or not a governmentwide effort to increase tech workers’ salaries moves forward.
It may not be likely to become law, but a new bill to reform federal civil service shows how deeply some members of congress feel about the issue. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) just introduced a bill that would turn all federal employees, not just senior executives, into employees at-will.
BOP must do simple things to makes itself a better place to work: Get to full staffing. Hire the right people. Update crumbling facilities. Sharpen the anti-recidivism problems. Easy to visualize, difficult to do.
Despite the Veterans Health Administration remaining on track to reach year-end targets to increase health care staff, problems persist in VHA’s recruitment and onboarding processes, the House Veterans Affairs Committee said.
Bureaus and offices across the State Department are looking for data scientists to join the federal workforce and lead its emerging "data science for diplomacy" initiatives.
For our May 10th show, I interviewed Transportation Security Administration Chief Human Capital Officer Jason Nelson.
Union leaders have emphasized that collective bargaining agreements already in place outweigh OMB's latest telework memo, but AFGE's chapter representing HUD employees is calling for even more flexibility from agency leadership.
In today's Federal Newscast: The latest federal hiring strategy to get the interest of younger applicants. Military service members have a new avenue to seek mental health support. And all 27 Sammies finalists were unveiled today.
The Postal Service says it’s getting operations on the right track after years of pandemic-related challenges. But the American Postal Workers Union says the agency remains too short-staffed to meet service standards, leading to burnout and a high rate of employee turnover
The Office of Personnel Management, under both the current and previous administration, successfully opened up thousands of federal jobs to more Americans by eliminating unnecessary degree requirements for federal positions for which a formal education is neither required nor a reliable predictor of a candidate’s ability to successfully do the job.