Office of Personnel Management
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Imagine working for a place where the boss could give you a bonus or pay raise for good performance, or freeze your pay and dock your annual leave if you repeatedly fail to measure up. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says imagine you are working there because it\'s coming your way.
July 02, 2010 -
Agency graduates first class from a training series that participants say will help them meet challenges they face on the job every day.
June 30, 2010 -
Auditors looked at 117 employee conversations to career positions from political ones and found most followed the rules. OPM is reviewing five of the seven that GAO determined to be improper.
June 30, 2010 -
As agencies try to hire hundreds of trained cybersecurity experts in the coming years, there are questions about whether that need can be met. Some observers wonder whether there really are enough cybersecurity workers.
June 30, 2010 -
The first graduates of a new leadership training program run by the Office of Personnel Management received their certificates yesterday. They are, as OPM Director John Berry describes them, the \"tip of the spear\" of a cadre of up-and-coming federal workers who are honing their leadership skills to be the next generation of agency leaders and executives who will run the government.
June 29, 2010 -
Agency releases new guides to help hiring managers implement the new approach, which will replace the rule of three.
June 28, 2010 -
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His goal: to settle once and for all the question of whether federal employees are overpaid compared to the private sector.
June 22, 2010 -
Director John Berry has asked federal and private sector experts to come up with a formula to compare public and private sector salaries. He says the government has a perception problem that needs to be fixed. Two senators introduce provisions to freeze federal pay and the number of employees.
June 17, 2010 -
Tens of thousands of federal employees may have their pay raises cut under the General Schedule for earning better raises under NSPS. Federal Managers Association\'s Patricia Niehaus explains.
June 10, 2010 -
Sens. Lieberman, Collins and Carper\'s legislation creates two new offices to oversee federal cybersecurity in DHS and the White House. It also forms a new Federal Information Security Taskforce made up of agency chief information security officers. Bill does not include \"kill switch\" provision for private sector networks.
June 10, 2010 -
A recent study by the Office of Personnel Management shows that women and minorities participate less in the Thrift Savings Plan than their white, male counterparts. Tom Trabucco of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investments Board explains what they\'re doing to try and close the gap.
June 07, 2010 -
Director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management shares ideas to implement OMB insourcing guidelines.
May 25, 2010 -
Senate passes a bill that calls for many of the same changes the administration is asking for. House committee wants more answers about how the reforms would affect the hiring of veterans. OPM promises more answers in 90 days.
May 20, 2010 -
\"Mobile workdays\" are telework\'s sexy side. The truth of the matter is the day to day telework grind has benefits too.
May 17, 2010