Margaret Weichert
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The Partnership for Public Service recognized the 26 finalists of the 2019 Service to America Medals (Sammies) on Thursday.
May 09, 2019 -
Federal employees have a new flexibility to earn time off for religious reasons, while Congress considers a partial solution to resolve a shortcoming at the member-less Merit Systems Protection Board.
May 08, 2019 -
The Trump administration has announced the winners of its new "Gears of Government President's Awards."
May 07, 2019 -
The Defense Department has agreed to use the Office of Personnel Management's USALearning platform, which the two agencies said will not only benefit DoD and its efforts to consolidate its business platforms but also the administration's broad efforts to retrain and reskill the federal workforce.
May 03, 2019 -
OMB has doubled down efforts to transform customer experience in government as a way to address other top management challenges.
May 02, 2019 -
Virginia Democrat Gerry Connolly isn’t concerned with overreach as he pursues an agenda of oversight and accountability.
April 26, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, auditors at the Government Accountability Office say the Homeland Security Department has made considerable progress towards fixing management weaknesses.
April 05, 2019 -
Until the Trump administration provides more details about its plans to reorganize the Office of Personnel Management, Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee are urging appropriators to prohibit funds for the proposed merger.
April 04, 2019 -
Fred Nutt, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the Office of Management and Budget controller, is no longer in the running for the position.
April 01, 2019 -
The President made the retroactive federal pay raise official with an executive order on Thursday. But agencies have more work to do to finalize the pay bump for their employees.
March 29, 2019 -
Dan Chenok, the executive director of the IBM Center for the Business of Government, reflects on the one-year anniversary of the newest management agenda.
March 29, 2019 -
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that makes the 1.9 percent federal pay raise for civilian employees official.
March 28, 2019 -
The Office of Management and Budget is expected to release a new memo in the next month or so detailing new goals and a strategy for shared services.
March 25, 2019 -
The Trump administration is also planning to study the full scope of federal employees' pay, benefits other opportunities for recognition, in effort to prove to Congress that the workforce would benefit from more flexible performance-based awards over across-the-board pay raises.
March 21, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Trump administration says it now sees an opportunity to build on many of the 14 cross-agency priority goals outlined in the President's Management Agenda.
March 21, 2019