Merit Systems Protection Board

Sometimes, things do get better for federal employees

At whatever level, most federal employees work under the same few pay, benefits and job governance plans. Although they’ve all been in place for decades,…

Tom Temin Commentary

The 2024 budget request comes out this week, kicking off a new Congressional season

Congress

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Reports of federal race, sex and age discrimination are on the decline

Federal Newscast

MSPB says federal hiring officials should focus more on skills rather than education

Federal Newscast

United States Merit Systems Protection Board

Much of what affects your life comes from a courtroom

Federal Insights

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5 years later, MSPB releases results of federal sexual harassment study

Workforce

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Kiran Ahuja, the nominee to be Office of Personnel Management Director, appears before a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hybrid nominations hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Workforce changes may still lie ahead for federal employees in 2023

Workforce

CBP’s $17 billion budget means a bigger focus on the border

Federal Newscast

The sun shines on the dome of Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Omnibus silently endorses 4.6% pay raise for federal employees in 2023

Congress

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., is interviewed about the Relay, an electric autonomous vehicle, in Fairfax, Va., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. The future of transportation arrived in northern Virginia, looking like a big blue toaster on wheels that can seat six and drive itself through the region’s notorious traffic. State and local officials debuted the Relay system Thursday, an all-electric, autonomous vehicle that will provide free shuttle rides back and forth from the Dunn Loring Metrorail stop to the bustling Mosaic District in Fairfax County, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Language to block future Schedule F absent from compromise version of NDAA

Workforce

OPM finalizes removal of several Trump-era federal workforce policies

Workforce Rights/Governance

A look inside the small but potent Office of Special Counsel

What federal managers need to know better to handle OSC investigations.

Agency Oversight

The MSPB grinds through that haystack of an appeals backlog

Agencies can automate a lot, but not the process of deciding who’s right in workplace prohibited practices.

Tom Temin Commentary

Now that it has a quorum, a progress report from the Merit Systems Protection Board

Workforce Rights/Governance

After several years of vacancy, the Merit Systems Protection Board has its full complement of three members,