Office of Personnel Management
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The federal employment question forms a knot that remains difficult to untie.
March 21, 2019 -
Retirement expert John Grobe, himself a former fed, said the length and uncertainty of the recent shutdown has a lot more people thinking about retirement, or just leaving government for greener pastures.
March 21, 2019 -
In effort to build a better talent pipeline and foster more collaborative, working relationships between government and universities, the Volcker Alliance has announced the creation of two "government-to-university" councils in Kansas City, Missouri, and Austin, Texas.
March 20, 2019 -
The Trump administration on Wednesday acknowledged that some federal employees are frustrated with how long it's taken to see the 1.9 percent retroactive pay raise.
March 20, 2019 -
The White House plans on spending 5 percent more to secure federal networks and data in 2020, with more than half of the funding going toward Defense Department cybersecurity. Get this story and others in today's Federal Newscast.
March 20, 2019 -
A joint 2020 budget request from the Office of Personnel Management and General Services Administration offers up some more detail on how the Trump administrations expects to reorganize OPM and merge its functions, but the plan lacks specifics.
March 19, 2019 -
The Trump administration's 2020 budget proposal includes recommendations that would shorten the time federal employees have to appeal a disciplinary or performance-based firing, suspension or other punishment.
March 19, 2019 -
The detailed version of the President's 2020 budget request includes a series of familiar pay and retirement cuts and a wide variety of proposals designed to change the way agencies compensate, hire, manage and reward both current and future federal employees.
March 18, 2019 -
Bipartisan support is growing for a proposed bill to remove barriers to federal employment for people with a criminal record.
March 18, 2019 -
On a the heels of Sunshine Week, a new study from the Government Accountability Office points to a variety of examples where agencies could improve compliance with their own ethics programs and shed light on basic information about executive branch political appointees.
March 15, 2019 -
The backlog of pending security clearances and other matters at the National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB) is down more than 25 percent from its record-high nearly a year ago. The backlog today stands at 541,000 investigations, NBIB Director Charlie Phalen said.
March 13, 2019 -
Guest columnist Jeff Neal says there is not a lot of room on the congressional calendar this fiscal year to have a serious discussion about civil service issues.
March 13, 2019 -
Ever since the late 1990s some experts on government matters have been predicting a tidal wave of retirements from key federal agencies. That sparked fears of a brain drain as experienced feds fled their jobs heading for the shuffle-board courts.
March 12, 2019 -
The Trump administration for the third consecutive year has recommended cuts to federal employee retirement and health benefits as part of its 2020 budget request.
March 11, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, lawmakers want to hear from the Indian Health Service's acting director about what he's done to improve on an apparent failure of the agency to provide quality health care.
March 08, 2019