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Hiring/Retention

FEMA using ‘every flexibility’ to staff up for hurricane recovery efforts

OPM has launched an emergency hiring authority to let agencies skip some steps of the recruitment process and onboard feds more quickly for hurricane response.

Facilities/Construction

Permitting council invests $15M in ‘surge capacity’ for agencies to manage infrastructure boom

Management

Interior's scientific integrity policy doesn't sit well with some scientists

Workforce

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

Workforce

An updated list of agencies’ return-to-office postures

Workforce

2023 Best Places to Work marks a turning point in employee engagement

Ask the CIO

Agency enhanced decision making through risk appetite lens

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Hiring/Retention

New skills-based hiring bill turns to federal contractors

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Workforce

New Interior Department rule expands an old one by thousands of miles

Congress

Interior Department’s telework policies grab the attention of Congress

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Federal Newscast

Seven federal agencies band together to form new 'Climate Corps'

Agency chief human capital officers convene for 2023 fall forum in September. Image credit: Office of Personnel Management.

Workforce

3 agencies that improved their FEVS response rates this year — and how they did it

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Management

A big uptick in federal agencies’ deferred facility maintenance backlogs

FILE - In this March 2, 2020, file photo, birds take off from a marsh in the Tulelake National Wildlife Refuge in the Klamath Basin along the Oregon-California border. One of the worst droughts in memory in the massive agricultural region straddling the California-Oregon border could mean steep cuts to irrigation water for hundreds of farmers this summer to sustain endangered fish species critical to local tribes. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees water allocations in the federally owned Klamath Project, is expected to announce this week how the season's water will be divvied up after delaying the decision a month. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File)

Federal Insights

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Agency Oversight

What your agency's inspector general says you need to get after

Bain-Capital

Federal Newscast

Director of Pentagon UFO office will retire next month.

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

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Reporter's Notebook

House tech leadership biggest surprise of summer changes

After walking down a gravel road to do recon on a fire cresting into the trees, a wildland firefighter grimaces as he walks back to his crew on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, at the Bedrock Fire north of Lenore, Idaho. Lenore is about 30 miles east of Lewiston, Idaho. (Pete Caster/Lewiston Tribune via AP)

Budget

White House asks Congress to keep firefighters from falling off the pay cliff

ADA, Return to Office

Federal Report

You need a scorecard to track back-to-office policies

Federal Newscast

Interior Dept reduces telework for executives, supervisors, managers

Investigation Tracked Child Welfare DOJ

Federal Newscast

Federal contractor to pay $7M for CX methodology issues

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Reporter's Notebook

GSA becomes latest agency to limit employee use of generative AI

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