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New council recommendations would adjust several pay locality areas, but must get approval from the president's pay agent before implementation.
Also in today's Federal Newscast, the Biden Administration Office of Personnel Management gets its first second-in-command. And the Navy has a new top intelligence officer.
Rob Shriver, the associate director for employee services at OPM, will move from the associate director for employee services role into the deputy director role if confirmed by the Senate.
Having workers from a diverse range of backgrounds, it turns out, leads to having different and valuable perspectives.
Senate Democrats unveiled 12 draft appropriations bills, with a 10.1% boost for civilian agencies, and an 8.7% increase in defense spending.
Agencies are thinking about ways to boost employee engagement in a hybrid workforce, with more interactions and shorter learning sessions.
To sort out what's going on with court battles over federal employee mask mandates and what agency management might do, Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with attorney Stephanie Rapp-Tully.
In today's Federal Newscast: The OPM Director has a warning about not offering telework to federal employees. The House passes a bill to fund IRS customer service. And the Coast Guard is modifying its medical requirements.
The House's passage of a government spending package has a few key implications for federal agencies in fiscal 2023.
The Biden administration sees a bright future for telework in the federal workforce, after many agencies sent employees home in the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Office of Personnel Management doesn't hire people to work at federal agencies. But it has a lot of influence over how agencies hire people. And it provides crucial shared services to help agencies manage their workforces. This year the Government Accountability Office added three high priority recommendations for OPM to improve things. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked about it with GAO's director of strategic issues, Michelle Sager.
A White House task force has recommendations to improve federal unions, but NTEU's national president tells Federal News Network it's time to start implementing them.
The government market is recession proof. But that doesn't mean contractors don't fight tooth-and-nail for federal business. Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke about that with the leader at one of the major contractors: CEO of Peraton, Stu Shea.
Employee satisfaction in the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings took a plunge, but some agencies still found success.