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A total of 417 federal employees have participated in the phased retirement program since the Office of Personnel Management first gave agencies the green light to start accepting applications back in 2014.
Tune in to FEDtalk on Federal News Radio September 21 at 11:00 AM as host Debra Roth speaks to Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), five-term representative from Virginia’s 11th District and Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Government Operations. Connolly will chime in on the federal workforce matters currently before Congress, including ongoing uncertainty about whether federal employees will receive a pay raise for 2019. Roth will also be joined in-studio by Federal Times Senior Reporter Jessie Bur and Jenny Mattingley, a federal sector management consultant who was formerly Director of the White House Leadership Development Program and Executive Director of the Performance Improvement Council.
September 21, 2018
A coalition of House Democrats from the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia are calling on congressional leadership to change course on the president's proposed federal pay freeze.
President Donald Trump has announced his plans to freeze pay for federal civilian employees in 2019.
The General Services Administration and its inspector general are at odds with each other following the release of a strongly worded IG report Monday about the fate of the FBI headquarters.
As the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Inspector General continues its work on probes tied to Scott Pruitt's tenure as EPA administrator, Andrew Wheeler, the acting head of the agency, has called on employees to cooperate with the oversight office's work.
The leading Democrat on IT issues in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said he's considering adding language to the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) that would clarify the need for a single chief information officer at each agency to report to the agency head.
In today's Federal Newscast, the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act cleared the House, bringing service members one step closer to a pay raise.
Following the recent rollback of telework agreements at the Education and Agriculture departments, two D.C.-area lawmakers have introduced legislation aimed at protecting and expanding existing agency telework agreements.
As agencies face an increasing volume of cyber threats, the Government Accountability Offices plans to examine whether the Trump administration has a reliable hierarchy for its cybersecurity leadership.
Do you remember what your work-wise, midsummer nightmares were this time last year? Even if you were on vacation this time last year, chances are you were thankful that the very real shutdown threatened for April didn’t materialize.
What's your agency doing about its telework program? We want to know. Follow the link below to take our anonymous online survey and to help us report on the future of telework in the federal government.
In today's Federal Newscast, Raphael Sanchez, former chief counsel for Immigration and Custom Enforcement's Office of Principal Legal Advisor used the identities of undocumented immigrants to open fraudulent lines of credit.
With telework agreements scaled back at USDA and Education Department, the future of telework agreements at other agencies may also hang in the balance.