Office of Personnel Management
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Lisa Schlosser, the federal deputy chief information officer, called it a career on Nov. 9 after more than 30 years in government.
November 10, 2016 -
Experts in the federal community say President-elect Donald Trump's business acumen will likely factor into the future of the federal workforce during the next administration. Trump will likely play closer attention to measures that would hold poor-performers accountable. Though they may not agree on all the issues, some federal unions say they hope they can find common ground on proposals that would advance federal hiring reforms.
November 09, 2016 -
Former DHS CHCO Jeff Neal has some suggestions regarding OPM and what, specifically, the next president should do with it.
November 09, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management and its contractor, Winvale/CSID, can't agree on just how many people need to re-enroll with a new vendor to keep credit monitoring and identity protection services, and they haven't yet finalized a plan to smoothly transition those victims to the new service provider, ID Experts.
November 08, 2016 -
Lindy Kyzer, senior editor for ClearanceJobs.com, helps you get to the bottom of challenges you and others may have with regards to security clearances.
November 08, 2016 -
About 71 percent of senior executives received a performance bonus from their agencies in fiscal 2015, a slight bump over the roughly 68 percent who picked up an award in 2014. A new report from the Office of Personnel Management shows the average award totaled $10,746, nearly $200 more than 2014's average.
November 02, 2016 -
The Obama administration released new guidance designed to officially codify the feedback its heard from agencies during the Hiring Excellence campaign and put them on path to use those lessons to improve federal hiring.
November 01, 2016 -
Roughly 540,000 of the 1.9 million calls the Office of Personnel Management's Retirement Services received from federal annuitants in fiscal 2015 were abandoned, OPM's inspector general found. The IG also said Retirement Services is not meeting its goal to process all written inquires within 60 days or less.
November 01, 2016 -
The National Treasury Employees Union and Office of Personnel Management are battling in court on whether or not a judge should dismiss a lawsuit against the agency, stemming from the 2015 data breach.
October 31, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management said it's notifying about 100,000 to 150,000 cyber breach victims enrolled in credit monitoring services with Winvale/CSID that their coverage will soon expire.
October 31, 2016 -
The council also revealed an annual study from the Office of Personnel and Management and Bureau of Labor Statistics, which measures the pay gap between federal employees and private sector workers.
October 28, 2016 -
Federal employees with disabilities made up 14.4 percent of the workforce in fiscal 2015, an improvement over 2014's 13.6 percent. Agencies also hired more employees with disabilities, 26,466 new hires compared with 20,618 new hires in 2014. The latest report from the Office of Personnel Management on the topic shows record disability hiring among agencies over the past 35 years.
October 27, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management is the latest agency to hold a Twitter chat. The subject was the student loan forgiveness program available to federal employees, and was co-hosted by Federal Student Aid (@FAFSA), an office of the Department of Education.
October 25, 2016 -
Most Federal Long Term Care Program policyholders chose to accept higher premiums or took advantage of special benefit reduction options during this summer's enrollee decision period. Premiums rose for about 264,000 active and retired federal employees by as much as 126 percent.
October 21, 2016 -
Welcome to the #FedFeed, a daily collection of federal ephemera gathered from social media and presented for your enjoyment.
October 20, 2016