The Office of Personnel Management plans to repeal several Trump administration workforce policies focused on making it easier to fire federal employees.
How often does the first work day of the year during a pandemic also arrive with an early snowstorm?
In today's Federal Newscast: A former top government scientist is exposed for thousands of dollars in sloppy expense-account reporting. An $83 million contract might mean millions of COVID test kits in America's future. And online military exchanges are now available to a new crop of customers.
CDOs reported significant progress in meeting early goals under the 10-year Federal Data Strategy, but repeatedly sought to increase staffing and raise the overall data literacy of the federal workforce.
Actual 2022 federal pay raises for civilian employees will range from 2.42% to 3.21%, depending on where they work. See where you land based on your locality pay area.
The most serious discussions about possible changes to the federal pay and locality system are on hold, at least until the president nominates new members to the Federal Salary Council.
In today's Federal Newscast, auditors for the Department of Veterans Affairs say the data Veterans Affairs is using to measure its capacity to provide specialty health care might not be accurate.
The Chief Human Capital Officers Council has a new operational mandate, and it's been discussing "future of work" policies and challenges on an almost weekly basis with the Office of Personnel Management.
After November's dramatic spike, the FYTD average processing rate is still the highest it's been in a year. But the monthly average is now back to around what it was in February and June.
The Biden administration is setting a decades-long vision to eliminate carbon emissions from federal buildings and its fleet of vehicles.
The president picked 230 members of the Senior Executive Service from across 37 agencies as winners of the 2021 Presidential Rank Awards.
The agency is also building a new spot on USAJobs.gov for positions related to implementation of the new infrastructure law, and it's pursuing changes to the Pathways Program and a centralized hub for federal internship opportunities.
The House Oversight and Reform Committee advanced the Strengthening the Office of Personnel Management Act, but not without testy debate that covered everything from the role of career federal employees to OPM's performance.
The Office of Personnel Management released a new playbook, as well as a guide on federal hiring authorities, to help agencies surge recruitment efforts to implement the new Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The Biden administration on Monday encouraged agencies to delay suspensions and firings for employees who fail to comply with the federal vaccine mandate through at least the holidays.