general schedule
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There's bipartisan consensus transportation security officers are underpaid, but Congress can't yet agree on the best path for raising TSA salaries.
May 05, 2021 -
With so much attention on a series of forthcoming multiple award contracts, it might be easy for companies to forget about the old, reliable, GSA Schedule.
April 27, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, to help agencies get the products and services they need faster as the pandemic continues, the General Services Administration is waving three key requirements for new and existing companies to earn a spot on the schedules contract.
April 12, 2021 -
A new draft policy from the Office of Personnel Management reveals what jobs are common in the federal workforce and the qualifications currently needed to hold those positions.
October 05, 2020 -
A coalition of affinity groups at the Justice Department says a nuance in the hiring process, which asks job candidates for their salary history, may disproportionately impact women and employees of color.
August 28, 2020 -
Much of the federal workforce has spent the three months working from home. When work is about what you do, not where you do it, where does that leave locality pay?
June 15, 2020 -
A summary of agencies' chief human capital challenges from the Office of Personnel Management points to the General Schedule as the "single greatest obstacle" to competing with the private sector for critical talent. It's second report in as many weeks from the federal community that describes major challenges with decades-old civil service systems.
April 06, 2020 -
The Office of Personnel Management has its own recommendations for correcting the new federal paid parental leave law, as well as a wide range of other legislative proposals for 2021.
February 12, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the House Homeland Security Committee passed the Rights for Transportation Security Officers Act. The bill would move screeners at the Transportation Security Administration under the General Schedule, a move that would likely mean a pay raise.
January 30, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of Personnel Management's inspector general says the agency is not keeping a good enough eye on the companies its contracted for identity theft protection.
January 06, 2020 -
The Office of Personnel Management says agencies struggle to recruit former employees who have left government and gained additional skills. New regulations that OPM will propose would give agencies the discretion to recruit top talent back with a promotion.
December 23, 2019 -
As several states and local governments have raised their minimum wages well past the federal rate of $7.25 in recent years, the Office of Personnel Management said it's received many questions how these changes might impact federal employees.
November 27, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a proposal in the 2020 defense authorization bill would require the Defense Department Inspector General to tell Congress if the department experimented with the idea of weaponizing disease-carrying insects.
November 19, 2019 -
Monday’s column got the attention of a lot of readers, especially those at the top step of the top grade — GS-15. Unfortunately, says Mike Causey, the explanation was mostly wrong.
September 24, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, it's now known when the Federal Acquisition Service will release its consolidated schedule, which will include the new special item numbers and terms and conditions.
August 23, 2019