Oversight
Analysis: Internationally oriented executives needed
Many domestic federal agencies aren’t prepared for global responsibilities.
Pay & Benefits
Strategy for stepping up veterans hiring focuses on training, outreach
Spouses will be included in efforts to bring more former service members to government, OPM says.
Oversight
Budget calls for larger acquisition workforce
Proposal would spend $158 million to increase the size of the procurement workforce by 5 percent.
Defense
Panel will study impact of gay ban repeal on military
Group will study a range of issues, including any changes to benefits, base housing and personnel policies that would be made necessary by repealing the law.
Defense
Defense budget tackles major management issues
Department would cut unnecessary programs, kill NSPS and grow the acquisition workforce.
Oversight
From Nextgov.com: Obama budget proposal counts on IT to save millions
Enterprise software licenses, turning off computers at night and eliminating paper check stubs among ways to try to make a dent in a record $1.6 trillion deficit.
Oversight
Interior plan reduces travel, IT spending
Department proposal calls for significant budget cuts, but would boost investment in renewable energy, climate change initiatives.
Pay & Benefits
Budget calls for more data on employee satisfaction and health
Additional statistics would guide efforts to strengthen human resources and benefits programs, administration says.
Pay & Benefits
President’s budget recommends pay parity
Fiscal 2011 plan proposes 1.4 percent pay raise for civilian and military employees.
Pay & Benefits
Obama proposes eliminating locality pay surveys
Administration says change will make salary calculations more accurate, make it easier to add new localities.
Oversight
From Nextgov.com: OPM kills plan to stop using SSNs as government employee identifiers
Agency and insurers said the proposal would have required them to create alternative federal IDs for a large number of internal and external databases.
Oversight
Unions are anxious for details of spending freeze
Employee organizations applaud overall message in State of the Union address, but raise some concerns about proposals to keep budgets in check.
Pay & Benefits
Federal employees continue to see favoritism in promotions and awards
Personal connections increasingly are perceived as an important factor in getting ahead, MSPB survey finds.
Pay & Benefits
Interior aims to improve workforce diversity
Recommendations from African-American employee group prompts mentoring programs, new performance metrics.
Oversight
OPM launches revamped USAjobs.gov
Officials praise new version’s greater efficiency and flexibility.
Oversight
Report says size of FCC staff decreased steadily during past decade
GAO: Decline in agency staff is due to a lack of workforce planning and competitive pay.
Pay & Benefits