Office of Personnel Management
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The Office of Personnel Management gave the Department of Veterans Affairs an authority needed to quickly rehire former medical professionals for VA's coronavirus response efforts. These reemployed annuitants can work full time and receive a full salary and their retirement checks.
March 20, 2020 -
If you're gonna have to telework, you might as well do it right.
March 20, 2020 -
Federal agencies have requested an additional $45.8 billion in funding for 2020 alone, which the White House said is necessary for its governmentwide response to the coronavirus. Extra telework support is at the top of the list.
March 19, 2020 -
The bureau's public information chief Michael Cook joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more information on the implications.
March 18, 2020 -
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March 18, 2020 -
Dale Cabaniss, who briefly led the Office of Personnel Management for six months, has resigned Tuesday afternoon, Federal News Network has learned.
March 17, 2020 -
OMB told agencies to offer “maximum telework flexibilities to all current telework eligible employees" due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the majority of feds aren't eligible.
March 17, 2020 -
For most of the Postal Service’s 600,000-employee workforce, work continues as usual, but in a heightened state of vigilance.
March 17, 2020 -
The Office of Personnel Management can urge and encourage agencies to expand flexibilities, enter into ad-hoc agreements and use unscheduled telework during the coronavirus pandemic, but it doesn't have the authority to do much else.
March 16, 2020 -
Federal employee are expressing anger and fear over a lack of planning around telework by their agencies to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.
March 13, 2020 -
As the Trump administration urges agencies to expand telework to employees at “higher risk” of exposure to coronavirus, the Education Department has taken steps to relax limits on how often employees can work from home.
March 13, 2020 -
After a sharp rise in the federal retirement processing backlog in January, the numbers dropped last month — but still about equal to 2019 levels.
March 13, 2020 -
Whoever said timing is everything sure knew what she was talking about. Take teleworking, please!
March 12, 2020 -
The Trump administration announced 10 cybersecurity detail opportunities, which are designed to give current federal employees, including the graduates of the Cybersecurity Reskilling Academy, the chance to gain hands-on experience in the field.
March 11, 2020 -
New paid parental leave benefits will be ready by the Oct. 1 deadline, the Office of Personnel Management said Monday in a letter to the National Treasury Employees Union. NTEU had raised doubts about OPM's plans for implementing the new law.
March 10, 2020