OPM-GSA merger

The General Services Administration will also assume management over the Office of Personnel Management’s office space in Washington later this fall.

The American Federation of Government Employees said it faces a series of familiar challenges again this year, despite the addition of new paid parental leave benefits and a federal pay raise victory.

Margaret Weichert, the number two leader at the Office of Management and Budget, is leaving government for the private sector, she confirmed to Federal News Network.

The goal to train nearly 20% of all federal employees on cybersecurity, project management and data science skills is the Trump administration’s most clear target yet in its ongoing efforts to modernize the existing workforce.

The Trump administration plans to again issue a joint budget request for the Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration, Federal News Network has learned. The White House is expected to release the president’s 2021 request Monday.

For much of the federal workforce in 2019, what employees thought they knew about their pay, benefits, workplace flexibilities and even the location of their offices in some cases, were in flux.

Another longtime leader at the Office of Personnel Management is retiring.

The 2020 spending bills urge the Social Security Administration to reinstate its telework program for operations employees, but they’re silent on collective bargaining protections and funding for the Bureau of Land Management’s upcoming relocation.

In today’s Federal Newscast, a temporary outage of Regulations.gov has some agencies allowing more time for comments on certain proposed rules.

In its most specific take yet on the Trump administration’s proposed merger of the Office of Personnel Management with the General Services Administration, Congress also commissioned the National Academy of Public Administration to conduct a top-to-bottom review of OPM.