Ron Sanders

OPM must address internal skills gaps before it can effectively help other agencies

Although there has been progress toward training and hiring staff, persistent internal skills gaps pose a “significant risk” to OPM’s ability to help other…

Agency Oversight

Ron, Sanders, professor at the University of South Florida.

Boiling the frog: How civil servants are being politicized before our eyes

Commentary

(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

FILE- In this June 15, 2018, file photo, twenty dollar bills are counted in North Andover, Mass. Default on your federal student loans and the government can take up to 15 percent of each paycheck to satisfy your debt. The Education Department can also withhold federal benefits like tax returns and Social Security payments. Garnishment is an effective tool to recoup unpaid loans, private collection agencies enlisted by the Education Department took in over $841.6 million via wage garnishment in the 2018 fiscal year, but it inflicts serious financial strain on borrowers who are already struggling. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Calls to ban use of salary history reveal deeper issues in federal pay system

Workforce

(Getty Images/iStockphoto/marcnorman)

IRS hits $80 billion jackpot, now embarks on hiring surge to rebuild workforce

Federal Report

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

The federal pay gap is shrinking, but advocacy groups are calling for more

Pay

(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., is interviewed about the Relay, an electric autonomous vehicle, in Fairfax, Va., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. The future of transportation arrived in northern Virginia, looking like a big blue toaster on wheels that can seat six and drive itself through the region’s notorious traffic. State and local officials debuted the Relay system Thursday, an all-electric, autonomous vehicle that will provide free shuttle rides back and forth from the Dunn Loring Metrorail stop to the bustling Mosaic District in Fairfax County, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

House legislators push 5.1% pay raise for all feds

Pay

After six years, OPM has a permanent inspector general

Agency Oversight

Hard to tell how much impact EO will have on federal pay equity

Federal Report

This experienced federal executive says tension with employee unions is a good thing

Unions

The NAPA report and OPM: Part 2

Commentary

NAPA report details path forward for OPM, but advocates worry it’ll be easily forgotten

Workforce

What may survive from Trump’s workforce agenda, with many of the signature policies gone

The Biden administration quickly eliminated many of its predecessors’ signature federal workforce policies. With the Schedule Fs and diversity/inclusion…

Workforce

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at HoverTech International, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, in Allentown, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Salary Council appointee resigns, calls Schedule F executive order a ‘red line’

Ron Sanders, a longtime federal leader and three-year Trump administration appointee, said the president’s recent EO would prevent career employees from…

Workforce

Federal locality pay: Broken or underfunded?

Pay

The Federal Salary Council is not recommending any new areas for 2022. But the council did engage in debate over the future of the federal locality program.