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Workforce

Wildland firefighters at the Forest Service work beyond their job duties. Their union says that’s a big problem

NFFE says skipped-over job duties that wildland firefighters perform for the Forest Service could mean they’re missing out on thousands of dollars a year.

Budget

OPM prioritizing pooled hiring, HR workforce in 2025 budget

Budget

Biden proposes 2% federal pay raise in 2025 budget request

Hiring/Retention

EPA targeting higher recruitment numbers for 2024

Hiring/Retention

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

Hiring/Retention

Heading into 2024, OPM ‘fundamentally rethinking’ federal hiring

Workforce

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

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Hiring/Retention

New USAJobs database should help agencies easily share qualified candidates

skills based hiring

Workforce

Biden administration tops infrastructure hiring targets, eyes broader hiring reforms

A firefighters works to stop a wildfire in Gouveia, in the Serra da Estrela mountain range, in Portugal on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Authorities in Portugal said Thursday they had brought under control a wildfire that for almost two weeks raced through pine forests in the Serra da Estrela national park, but later in the day a new fire started and threatened Gouveia. (AP Photo/Joao Henriques)

Pay

Despite massive bipartisanship, a pay raise for federal wildland firefighters is still at risk

FILE -Firefighters work at the scene of forest fire near Kyuyorelyakh village at Gorny Ulus area, west of Yakutsk, in Russia Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. A warming planet and land use changes mean more wildfires will scorch large parts of the globe in coming decades. That's according to a UN report released Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022 that says many governments are ill-prepared to address the problem. (AP Photo/Ivan Nikiforov, File)

Federal Newscast

Federal firefighters temporary pay raise goes permanent

Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) speaks to reporters in front of the Capitol building about workforce challenges for federal wildland firefighters. Photo by Drew Friedman, Federal News Network.

Pay

There will be ‘mass exodus’ of federal firefighters without a permanent pay solution

Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.), accompanied by federal wildland firefighters and union leaders, speaks to reporters in front of the Capitol building.

Pay

With time running out on a temporary pay raise, federal firefighters press Congress for a permanent one

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Reorganization

That new federal regulatory agenda has generated opposition

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Contracting

New rules coming for contractors working on federal infrastructure projects

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)

Workforce

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

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Commentary

Where agencies should prioritize their cyber funding

Kiran Ahuja

Hiring/Retention

Ahuja wants to reach more diverse applicants for 8,000 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law jobs

FILE - A young man stands in front of a shelve with hard liquor at a beverage market in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany, June 15, 2007. The German government's drugs czar has proposed raising the age when people can buy beer and win from 16 to 18, and cracking down on alcohol and tobacco advertising. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Federal Newscast

Vets suing Army for not recognizing substance abuse disorders in discharges

Hiring/Retention

OPM authorizes streamlined hiring in support of infrastructure law

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2019, file photo, pamphlets are shown in the clinic of Planned Parenthood of Utah in Salt Lake City. The Biden administration on Oct. 4, 2021, reversed a ban on abortion referrals by family planning clinics, lifting a Trump-era restriction as political and legal battles over abortion grow sharper from Texas to the U.S. Supreme Court. Groups representing the clinics say they hope the rule reversal leads to the return of hundreds of service providers that left the program to protest the Trump administration's policy. HHS has estimated that the upheaval led to as many as 180,000 unintended pregnancies. The clinics provide birth control and basic health care mainly to low-income women.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Federal Newscast

Members of Congress want Pentagon to start covering birth control under TRICARE

FILE - Motorist traveling southbound on Interstates 90 and 94 for Indiana approach the intersection with Interstate 55 for St. Louis, Dec. 21, 2017, in Chicago. The $1 trillion infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden signs into law on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, represents a historic achievement at a time of deeply fractured politics. But the compromises needed to bridge the political divide suggest that the spending might not be as transformative as Biden has promised for the U.S. economy. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Contracting

You might have thought the infrastructure bill had lots of procurement money. Think again.

Paratroopers participate in a division run along Long Street during the All American Run on Fort Bragg, N.C. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Vincent Levelev)

Federal Newscast

Next year's $770B defense authorization act includes a raise