Kiran Ahuja

• Reintroduced bills aim to fix hiring process, Social Security benefits for feds

  Lawmakers reintroduced the Social Security Fairness Act, aiming to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset, as well as the Chance to Compete Act, seeking to revamp the federal hiring process.

  Congress

  January 24, 2023
• Agencies get clearer direction from OPM, OMB to expand early-career pipeline

  New guidance from the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget details how agencies can expand paid internship opportunities.

  Workforce

  January 20, 2023
• Governmentwide chief diversity officer eyes long-term plans to advance DEIA

  After months of planning and two council meetings, federal diversity leaders are hammering out more long-term changes to advance the Biden administration’s DEIA priorities.

  Workforce

  January 13, 2023
• House Republicans introduce bill to return federal employees to the office

  House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) introduced the SHOW UP Act, which would require agencies to return to their pre-pandemic office arrangements.

  Congress

  January 11, 2023
• NARA becomes latest agency to expand telework in new union agreement

  The National Archives and Records Administration signed a memorandum of understanding with its union to extend telework eligibility to all permanent agency employees.

  Workforce

  December 29, 2022
• Workforce changes may still lie ahead for federal employees in 2023

  Agencies’ ‘future of work’ plans, priorities in the President’s Management Agenda and hiring reform efforts defined 2022 for federal employees.

  Workforce

  December 27, 2022
• Pay agent calls for ‘major reforms’ to federal pay system, approves four new pay localities

  The President’s Pay Agent issued an annual report, approving four new pay localities, while also noting the need for larger reforms to the federal compensation system.

  Pay

  December 19, 2022
• CHCO Council looks to scale, replicate successful pilots for federal hiring reform

  The Chief Human Capital Officers Council hopes to duplicate and scale up successful pilots for federal hiring reform, including the use of shared certificates and skills-based hiring practices.

  Workforce

  December 15, 2022
• Biden administration outlines how agencies can measure progress toward PMA goals

  Biden administration officials point to “great strides” in agencies progress under the President’s Management Agenda, just after it hit its one-year anniversary.

  Management

  December 14, 2022
• Agencies’ transition to hybrid work shows through in 2022 FEVS results

  About one quarter of 2022 FEVS respondents said they'd consider leaving their position based on their agency's current telework or remote work options.

  Workforce

  December 01, 2022
• Open Season Exchange 2022: OPM Director Kiran Ahuja on balancing benefits, affordability

  What’s often more important than actually making an FEHB change is simply taking a look at the options available, advises OPM Director Kiran Ahuja. We sit down with Ahuja to get a look at OPM’s focus for open season this year.

  Open Season

  November 21, 2022
• How agencies are trying to keep early-career employees in federal jobs

  OPM is prioritizing early-career recruitment, as the federal government trails the private sector in its percentage of millennial and Generation Z employees in the workforce.

  Hiring/Retention

  November 08, 2022
• It’s late 2022 and federal retirement is still a paperwork chore

  In the digital age, federal retirement still takes by-hand data gathering and paper. Give yourself months.

  Tom Temin Commentary

  November 03, 2022
• Even Anthony Fauci will have to get his retirement papers through the creaky OPM machinery

  As year-end approaches and federal employees think about retirement plans, here are some things to keep in mind.

  Workforce

  November 02, 2022