Labor

• New rules set veteran, disability hiring benchmarks for federal contractors

  The Labor Department unveiled two final rules Tuesday requiring federal contractors to establish clear-cut annual benchmarks for hiring veterans and people with disabilities.

  Management

  August 27, 2013
• 5 percent of federal workforce to be furloughed Friday

  The Department of Housing and Urban Development, Internal Revenue Service, Office of Management and Budget and the Environmental Protection Agency will all shut down Friday because of widespread employee furloughs — giving feds a four-day holiday weekend. The Labor and Interior Departments also are telling employees to stay home.

  Budget

  May 23, 2013
• Obama to nominate Katherine Archuleta as next OPM director

  Katherine Archuleta, President Barack Obama's nominee for director of the Office of Personnel Management, served as his national political director in the 2012 election. Prior to that, Archuleta served as chief of staff to former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.

  Management

  May 23, 2013
• DHS, DoD asking OMB for sequestration reprogramming authority

  Homeland Security, Defense and USDA are asking the Office of Management and Budget for the ability to reprogram agency funds to soften the blow of sequestration. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said the agency must cut $3 billion by Sept. 30 and every mission, contract and person will be impacted in some way. She said the Coast Guard already is feeling the impact of the cuts in mission areas.

  Budget

  April 19, 2013
• NIST’s Leaf to become Labor deputy CIO

  Dawn Leaf takes over for Tom Wiesner who retired in June.

  All News

  November 16, 2012
• Labor Dept. says defense layoffs ‘speculative,’ no need for warning

  Defense industry executives have spent the last few weeks warning that across-the-board budgets cuts that go into effect in January, could force them to issue notifications to employees in the fall to warn of impending layoffs. However, in a new memo issued Monday, the Labor Department said the lack of clarity about how the cuts would be applied means it would be "inappropriate" to issue Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notifications.

  Budget

  July 30, 2012
• Fear hinders hiring people with disabilities

  This week is the two-year anniversary of President Barack Obama's executive order to hire 100,000 more people with disabilities into the federal government by 2015. But the government is not on track to meet that goal, only hiring 20,000 people with disabilities for fiscal 2010 and 2011 combined, according to the Office of Personnel Management. As of fiscal 2010, less than 1 percent of the federal workforce had a targeted disability.

  Workforce

  July 26, 2012
• Feds’ satisfaction with pay dips after two-year freeze

  Federal employees were less satisfied with their pay after the two-year pay freeze went into effect in 2010, according to a report by the Partnership for Public Service. Although higher-ranking feds were most satisfied with their pay, the highest-ranking feds — those at the SES level — had the biggest dip in pay satisfaction over the previous year.

  Budget

  May 29, 2012
• Reports indicate federal workers’ comp long overdue for update

  The federal workers' compensation program has long targeted by agency inspectors general, who have cited the program's lack of oversight and susceptibility to improper payments Some members of Congress also argue the program's benefit structure, which hasn't been meaningfully updated since the mid-1970s, has led to widespread inefficiencies.

  All News

  April 30, 2012
• OPM convenes workgroup to address domestic violence in federal workplace

  The Office of Personnel Management will convene an interagency workgroup in the coming weeks to establish governmentwide policies on domestic violence in the federal workplace. Rob Shriver, deputy general council for policy at OPM, has an update on the personnel agency's progress.

  Federal Drive

  April 30, 2012
• Labor website links fed managers to workers with disabilities

  Akinyemi Banjo is a policy adviser at the Labor Department.

  Federal Drive

  April 26, 2012
• Labor Department rolls out job-search website for veterans

  Jane Oates, the assistant secretary for the Employment and Training Administration at the Labor Department, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss how a new veteran-specific job website works.

  Federal Drive

  November 10, 2011
• SSA, AFGE still at negotiating impasse

  Nearly two years of negotiating has led to a stalemate between the Social Security Administration and its largest union, the American Federation of Government Employees. The protracted dispute mars the Obama administration\'s otherwise productive attempts to collaborate formally with federal unions.

  Pay & Benefits

  November 08, 2011
• Labor gives cash awards for job help apps

  The Labor Department gave $68,000 in prizes for applications to help connect unemployed people with job positions.

  Technology

  October 27, 2011