Kiran Ahuja

OPM redefines the skills that 40K federal HR employees need

New competency models for human resources (HR) positions rethink the job skills necessary for more than 40,000 HR employees across government.

Hiring/Retention

Lawmakers urging expanded IVF coverage for FEHB enrollees

Open Season

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Kiran Ahuja stepping down as OPM director

Workforce

Feds can still take administrative leave to get COVID-19 booster shots

Benefits

Pathways Program overhaul seeks to open doors to more candidates

Workforce

(AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

USPS health care program will have 32 carrier options in 2025

Open Season

(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Office of Personnel Management Director, Kiran Ahuja

Agencies get details on how to better recruit, retain military spouses

Workforce

Agencies should promote existing workplace flexibilities in federal AI hiring, OPM says

Artificial Intelligence

Federal Housing Finance Agency to kickstart negotiations for first-ever union contract

Workforce

The government’s top role for workforce diversity will soon be vacant. What happens next?

Workforce

Improper payments reach five-year high in OPM retirement services

Agency Oversight

4 ways federal pay has changed in the last year

Although OPM has made various tweaks to the federal pay system — such as removing a cap on higher pay rates, and shifting the onus for approving pay…

Federal Report

best places to work in the federal government, small business, VBA

Heading into 2024, OPM ‘fundamentally rethinking’ federal hiring

For the Office of Personnel Management, even more plans appear to lie ahead. But many may come in smaller bites and require leadership from chief human…

Hiring/Retention

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

Workforce

Telework and return-to-office changes at agencies were far from the only pivot for the federal workforce in 2023.