Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Agencies should expect more pooled hiring actions in 2024, OPM’s Shriver says

Office of Personnel Management Deputy Director Rob Shriver said there will be a continuing and increasing emphasis on pooled hiring in the coming months.

Hiring/Retention

Telework changes, hiring reforms of 2023 charting a course into the new year

Workforce

(AP Photo/Mike Groll)

FILE - This April 22, 2014, file photo shows an employment application form on a table at a job fair in Hudson, N.Y. Middle-age white Americans with limited education are increasingly dying younger, on average, than other middle-age U.S. adults, a trend driven by their dwindling economic opportunities, research by two Princeton University economists has found. The economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, argue in a paper released Thursday, March 23, 2017, that the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with high school degrees or less has triggered broad problems for this group. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Biden administration tops infrastructure hiring targets, eyes broader hiring reforms

Workforce

15 weeks until federal firefighters face ‘pay cliff,’ warn Forest Service, Interior officials

Pay

(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, a sign on a door of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. Long-running research projects credited with pivotal discoveries about the harm that pesticides, air pollution and other hazards pose to children are in jeopardy or shutting down because the Environmental Protection Agency will not commit to their continued funding, researchers say. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

With low staffing and high workloads, EPA’s large budget proposal is a ‘catch-up game,’ administrator says

Workforce

(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Cuyahoga Community College Metropolitan Campus, Thursday, May 27, 2021, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden plans federal pay compression fix, streamlined hiring in FY 24 budget

Pay

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CHCO Council looks to scale, replicate successful pilots for federal hiring reform

Workforce

600 EPA employees seek more promotion opportunities for tackling ‘more complex work’

Pay

Cars wait to cross into the United States at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. The U.S. fully reopened its borders with Mexico and Canada on Monday and lifted restrictions on travel that covered most of Europe, setting the stage for emotional reunions nearly two years in the making and providing a boost for the travel industry decimated by the pandemic. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

The year-old $3 billion infrastructure law is actually leading to stuff being fixed

Federal Newscast

SBA names its third CIO in two years

Federal Newscast

FILE - A child rinses a toothbrush at a shelter in San Francisco, Calif., June 18, 2019. Tap water is subject to a rash of government standards but people in many communities across the U.S. remain exposed to unhealthy drinking water. A Supreme Court decision on EPA regulation of carbon emissions from power plants this past week could make it harder to expand federal regulation in other areas. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

Water water everywhere: EPA using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds to make it safer to drink

Workforce

Under infrastructure law, federal firefighters to see increase in pay

Agencies hope to resolve growing recruitment and retention challenges for federal firefighters with a pay raise and new guidance for career paths.

Pay

White House permitting plan seeks interagency coordination for infrastructure spending

The Biden administration is looking to accelerate the pace of federal permitting and environmental reviews for thousands of infrastructure projects under…

Agency Oversight