Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

OPM prioritizing pooled hiring, HR workforce in 2025 budget

OPM’s request for $465.8 million in discretionary fiscal 2025 spending looks to scale up development of early-career talent, the HR workforce and more.

Budget

Biden proposes 2% federal pay raise in 2025 budget request

Budget

Environmental Protection Agency Building

EPA targeting higher recruitment numbers for 2024

Hiring/Retention

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

Hiring/Retention

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Heading into 2024, OPM ‘fundamentally rethinking’ federal hiring

Hiring/Retention

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

Workforce

New USAJobs database should help agencies easily share qualified candidates

Hiring/Retention

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

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)

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

Pay

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 firefighters temporary pay raise goes permanent

Federal Newscast

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.

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

Pay

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

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

A two-year pay raise for federal wildland firefighters will expire on Sept. 30. The first responders joined union leaders and lawmakers to push Congress…

Pay

The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. To enact President Joe Biden’s expansive domestic agenda this year, Democrats have mapped out a convoluted legislative maze. The party wants to push the new president's multitrillion-dollar plans for supercharging federal infrastructure, climate change and social programs through a Congress in which they have only paper-thin majorities. GOP opposition is certain to be solid. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

That new federal regulatory agenda has generated opposition

The Biden administration recently declared a new approach to federal regulation it said would modernize and streamline it.

Reorganization

New rules coming for contractors working on federal infrastructure projects

Contracting

Companies leaders who want a piece of projects funded by last year’s infrastructure bill, should pay attention.