executive order
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The Trump administration's regulatory budget promotes fewer regulations and less growth in cost to agencies, leaving room for better decision making.
February 23, 2017 -
Want to know how pending legislation could affect your bottom line? Check out our federal employee bill tracker for an at-a-glance update of where each piece of legislation currently stands.
February 16, 2017 -
Federal News Radio has learned President Donald Trump could sign an executive order as soon as this week requiring agencies to develop plans in the coming months to suggest ways to reduce the duplication of agencies, components and programs. The potential EO comes as agencies also are preparing for budget cuts that could range between 5 percent and 20 percent.
February 15, 2017 -
Lead time and planning efforts for an executive order can vary based on the topic, complexity and urgency, but former Bush and Obama administration officials say inter-agency collaboration is key. But some lawmakers have several questions for the Trump administration about the roll-out of some recent executive orders.
February 06, 2017 -
Regulation and deregulation have been a ceaseless process at least since the Carter administration.
February 01, 2017 -
President Donald Trump decided not to sign a new cybersecurity executive order on Jan. 31, but more specifics of the plan to secure federal and private sector networks emerge.
February 01, 2017 -
Cyber experts say the nation’s challenges are well known and another set of reviews, as proposed by the Trump administration, is delaying the real work to fix vulnerabilities and mitigate risks.
January 30, 2017 -
Government contractors are in the dark about what President Donald Trump’s administration has in store, just like everyone else. But government contract lawyers from law firm Crowell and Moring are making some speculations.
January 27, 2017 -
President Barack Obama signed an executive order Jan. 17, which sets the governance process and suitability standards for agencies and the population of federal employees and contractors. It clarifies the work that the Office of Personnel Management and National Background Investigation Bureau has already started to develop a more modern vetting system.
January 17, 2017 -
More power has moved to the White House and away from Congress over the past few decades. You see it in the number of executive orders and rule-making efforts originating in the White House. New research shows this can cause gyrations for the career work force with people deciding to either quit on philosophical grounds or stick around and wait out a current president. David Lewis, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, offers insight to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
January 10, 2017 -
President Barack Obama signed an executive order authorizing a 2.1 percent pay parity for civilian employees in 2017. This order supersedes the one he signed back in November, which authorized a smaller raise for federal employees.
December 28, 2016 -
Agencies hired 6,000 more veterans in fiscal 2015 than in the previous year, according to a new report on veterans hiring in the federal workforce from the Office of Personnel Management. OPM says the positive numbers are the result of the Veterans Employment Initiative, which President Barack Obama began in 2009.
November 11, 2016 -
Federal employees with disabilities made up 14.4 percent of the workforce in fiscal 2015, an improvement over 2014's 13.6 percent. Agencies also hired more employees with disabilities, 26,466 new hires compared with 20,618 new hires in 2014. The latest report from the Office of Personnel Management on the topic shows record disability hiring among agencies over the past 35 years.
October 27, 2016 -
As deadlines come and go, OPM answered some frequently asked questions about an executive order, signed in 2015, that mandated reforms to the Senior Executive Service.
June 30, 2016 -
Roughly 85 percent of current Senior Executive Service members are eligible to retire within the next 10 years. And about half can retire within the next president's first term in office. But as the administration looks to agency career leaders to steer the upcoming presidential transition, 55 percent of GS-14s and GS-15s say they're not interested in joining the SES.
June 22, 2016