Oversight
Postal watchdog keeps an eye on potential closures
Commission head is hopeful USPS will move slowly to close or consolidate post offices.
Pay & Benefits
Huge round of arrests for $450 million in Medicare fraud
Attorney General Eric Holder will provide details of the arrests at a press conference.
Tech
Telework is increasingly satisfying and less problematic, study finds
Management is slower to take to this workplace innovation.
Management
Progressive Discipline
Managers should take steps to help problem employees improve, and protect themselves in the process.
Management
Obama seeks to harmonize international regulations
Executive order sets up working group to coordinate agency and public input.
Management
OPM promises fellows program will be better in 2013
Berry touts updates to Congress, including improved application and assessment processes.
Management
Continuing resolutions passed by Congress through the years
Congress passed the most continuing resolutions for fiscal 2001, but many of them were for only one day.
Pay & Benefits
More than 1,000 IRS employees agreed to buyouts in fiscal 2011
Figure doesn’t include results of a second round of offers in January.
Nextgov
A Tech Evolutionary
Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel is remapping IT strategy for a government on the go.
Pay & Benefits
Watchdog documents ongoing workers’ compensation struggles
Management and oversight deficiencies lead to avoidable costs, GAO notes.
Oversight
EPA official resigns over 'crucify' comment
Al Armendariz said in a 2010 video that the regulator should 'crucify' oil and gas companies that violated environmental laws.
Management
Romney attacks Obama over GSA scandal in new Web ad
Ad shows Obama in 2008 saying he would 'go through the federal budget line by line.'
Management
Postmaster general says Congress must act
The Senate's postal reform draws fire from House Republicans and USPS advocates alike.
Management
USPS says Senate-passed postal reform effort doesn’t go far enough
Agency will be back before Congress in a few years, postmaster general says.
Management
Public opinion of federal government at 15-year low
New findings could be a concern for President Obama.
Management
Fifty-four senior executives win Presidential Distinguished Rank Awards
Defense, Agriculture receive most awards.
Management