Office of Personnel Management
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New data from the Office of Personnel Management shows that 93 percent of the people hired through the Pathways program intend to stay in government, and the programs are responsible for 35,000 new hires since 2012. Tim McManus, the vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service talked with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the new report. He says they show agencies are beginning to use the Pathways programs as they were originally intended.
August 31, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management has been busy this year helping agencies more quickly recruit, hire and develop cyber talent, an initiative outlined in the President's Cybersecurity National Action Plan. Agencies like the FBI and Commerce Department say they are also beginning to change their mindsets when building teams of cyber experts.
August 30, 2016 -
A new report from the Social Security Administration’s inspector general found 35 deceased federal beneficiaries were paid $1.7 million between 1991 and 2013.
August 30, 2016 -
The Government Accountability Office has decided on six of the 14 remaining protests, dismissing five and denying one, for the Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) contract.
August 29, 2016 -
Two senators are urging the Office of Personnel Management to share details about the progress — or lack thereof — for the National Background Investigations Bureau. The NBIB is expected to be operational by October 2016.
August 26, 2016 -
Kimya Lee, the Office of Personnel Mangement's senior adviser on research and evaluation, and the rest of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey team are finalists for a Service to America medal in the Management Excellence category for all the work they’ve done over the years. Lee tells Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin, they’re still working to go deeper into federal agencies.
August 26, 2016 -
A little more than a month after the Office of Personnel Management dropped its long-term-care bombshell, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is asking where exactly that bomb came from.
August 24, 2016 -
A new report from the Office of Personnel Management found interns, recent college graduates and Presidential Management Fellows are staying on with the government at a higher rate. Agencies are appointing more veterans, more minorities and providing better mentoring and training opportunities to new employees.
August 23, 2016 -
When labor-management relationships are strong, employee engagement improves, federal union leaders said during a discussion at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service conference in Chicago. Union leaders say their partnerships with agencies have improved over the past eight years, but the success of those partnerships too often depends on the administration.
August 18, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management wants to make sure political appointees hired during the current administration don't have an unfair advantage getting career jobs in the next administration.
August 17, 2016 -
According to the latest count from the Office of Personnel Management, less than 100 federal employees have applied to their agencies' phased retirement program. It's been roughly two years since OPM released final regulations on phased retirement and gave agencies the green light to begin accepting applications.
August 16, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management is continuing its monthly webinar series on engaging the federal workforce.
August 15, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget released guidance on raising the bonus award caps for senior executives, senior level and senior professional and scientific federal employees, and recommended tying bonuses more closely to performance, including the use of smaller bonuses for specific contributions throughout the year.
August 15, 2016 -
Dave DeVries, currently DoD’s principal deputy CIO, will help OPM transition to the new National Background Investigation Bureau.
August 09, 2016 -
President Barack Obama signed the MEGABYTE Act into law, and GSA released two new shared services offerings to keep the “slow” summer months hopping.
August 08, 2016