Pay & Benefits
Agencies Will Start Hearing What Their Employees Really Think This Summer
OPM says it will begin sending feedback from the annual employee job satisfaction survey to agencies in August.
Management
Social Media Metrics for Government: A Manager's Handbook
How to make sure online efforts advance strategic goals.
Oversight
Prosecuting VA Officials Would be 'Shot Heard Around the System'
Sixty-nine VA facilities -- not including Phoenix -- are under investigation by the VA’s inspector general office.
Management
Hillary Clinton on Benghazi Scandal: 'It's More of a Reason to Run'
6 things we learned from Hillary Clinton's interview with Diane Sawyer.
Defense
Insiders Support Bergdahl Swap—but Just Barely
Not one expert said Eric Shinseki's resignation would fix the massive problems in the VA health care system.
Pay
Bill would eliminate controversial Border Patrol overtime system
Bipartisan legislation discussed during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing June 9 would eliminate administratively uncontrollable overtime (AUO) and create a more flexible pay schedule for Border Patrol agents.
Employee Policy
VA IG subpoenas watchdog group for whistleblower files
The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General has subpoenaed a government watchdog group, ordering it to turn over information the organization has collected through a confidential tip-line established to collect information from VA whistleblowers.
Employee Policy
Measure would head off plan to cut most USDA poultry inspectors
A House lawmaker has introduced an amendment to prevent the Agriculture Department from spending money to implement a proposed poultry inspection rule that would replace most federal inspectors with processing plant employees.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers Want to Overhaul Pay and Benefits for Border Patrol, Firefighters
Reformers hope to end widespread abuse of overtime privileges among border agents.
Oversight
House Again Targets VA Managers Who 'Drag Their Feet and Don’t Do Their Jobs'
Lawmakers pass another bill making it easier to fire and withhold bonuses from VA supervisors.
Nextgov
IRS Illegally Gave Taxpayer Data to the FBI in 2010, Republicans Say
Move is evidence of effort to undermine conservative groups, lawmakers say.
Defense One
Rebuilding Bipartisan Consensus on National Security
The rough consensus that once guided American foreign policy has shattered. It’s time to put it back together. By Michèle Flournoy and Richard Fontaine
Management
What Good Did You Do You Today?
Ask someone, and the answer might inspire a new connection.
Oversight
Senate Majority Leader Promises Immediate Action on VA Reforms
Reid says the chamber will vote as soon as a bill is ready.
Oversight
Political Myopia
It's getting increasingly rare for people to be able to look through the lens of those holding other viewpoints.
Nextgov
If You Think Cybersecurity Is ‘Just an IT Problem,’ Prepare to Get Owned
Security exec describes today’s cyber landscape. It’s not pretty.
Management
HUD May Have Broken Law When It Paid Salary of Senior Advisor
A non-federal employee on detail to department received more than $620,000 in compensation from the wrong pool of money.
Management
13 Percent of VA Schedulers Say Supervisors Told Them to Falsify Dates
As of May 15, VHA had over 6 million appointments scheduled across the system.
Management