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The Office of Personnel Management is expanding the variety of political conversations that must receive its permission before a new appointment to a civil service job begins.
The Senate on Wednesday night confirmed both Jeff Pon and Michael Rigas to serve as director and deputy director for the Office of Personnel Management.
Disunity among politicals sends a mixed message to the career staff, the public and the Hill and it can lead to challenges in accomplishing the mission.
For some folks, the idea of a ban on burrowing makes a lot of sense. The problem is that solving one problem creates another.
This week, the Senate confirmed a new deputy secretary of Defense, four more prospective DoD officials underwent their confirmation hearings, and the White House settled on candidates for two more Pentagon political appointees. But 30 of the department's political jobs still have no nominees.
The Senate has confirmed six officials to serve in Pentagon leadership positions within the past month. But for 35 of DoD's 53 politically-appointed jobs, there still is no nominee.
A recently retired federal employee shares some wisdom and offers tips for the incoming crop of political appointees.
Listen to the career people without judgment, but expect them to brief you without their personal agendas.
Everybody take a deep breath. The Plum Book has 4,000 jobs. It always takes months to make a dent.
Few career feds, level-headed as they tend to be, are heading for the doors just because Donald Trump will be president.
About 4,000 political appointees will leave the Obama administration in the next nine weeks. While conversations over policy, budget and organizational structure will take center stage, questions about your pay and benefits may not. Federal News Radio reviewed the Office of Personnel Management's transition guide in search of the answers.
Presuming you won't be fired, you may nevertheless have trepidation about whomever will come into your agency as leadership after inauguration.
The Office of Personnel Management issued new guidance last month about human resource matters for SESers and outgoing political appointees. GAO plans to develop an app to focus on top federal management priorities for the next administration and members of Congress.
In a report released by the Merit Systems Protection Board on Sept. 26, nearly 20 percent of federal resource management officials surveyed said political appointees at their agencies received no comprehensive training on merit system principles.