Margaret Weichert
-
The federal employment question forms a knot that remains difficult to untie.
March 21, 2019 -
In effort to build a better talent pipeline and foster more collaborative, working relationships between government and universities, the Volcker Alliance has announced the creation of two "government-to-university" councils in Kansas City, Missouri, and Austin, Texas.
March 20, 2019 -
The Trump administration on Wednesday acknowledged that some federal employees are frustrated with how long it's taken to see the 1.9 percent retroactive pay raise.
March 20, 2019 -
Lawmakers and Trump administration officials remain divided over whether rolling back postal unions’ right to collectively bargain over compensation, as recommended by the White House’s Postal Task Force, would put the agency on firmer financial footing.
March 14, 2019 -
The Justice Department’s Office of Information Policy believes fiscal 2018 will mark yet another record year for the volume of new Freedom of Information Act requests filed by the public.
March 12, 2019 -
President Donald Trump has announced his intent to nominate Dale Cabaniss to be the permanent director of the Office of Personnel Management. The agency has been without permanent leadership for five months.
March 04, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, more time has been given for companies to come up with new ideas for the security clearance process.
March 04, 2019 -
A time frame has been issued for when feds can expect new locality pay tables from the Office of Personnel Management, 12 days after the president signed a 1.9 percent 2019 pay raise for civilian employees.
February 27, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the National Treasury Employees Union asked the Office of Personnel Management when federal employees can expect to see the 1.9 percent pay raise recently signed into law.
February 26, 2019 -
Nearly 12,000 more federal employees retired in 2018 than the previous year. It may not be a "tsunami," but the federal community has said it could be the start of a retirement wave.
February 15, 2019 -
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, along with Reps. Gerry Connolly and Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.), want to know why there have been so many challenges in issuing full and correct back pay to federal employees after the recent government shutdown.
February 13, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the agency in charge of union relationships, no longer has one with it's own employees union.
February 13, 2019 -
The Technology Modernization Fund Board chose GSA’s NewPay shared services proposal to receive the third loan from the IT modernization account.
February 12, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, NASA announces it will be running a test flight of a crewed commercial space craft some time in July.
February 08, 2019 -
Acting OPM Director Margaret Weichert named Clare Martorana and David Nesting as the agency’s new chief information officer and deputy CIO, respectively.
February 07, 2019