SES

  • Is your top management dead in the water? Are your SES bosses living in silos and afraid to even look outside the boss? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey wants to know: Is shuffling the SES deck a good idea?

    March 13, 2012
  • Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae came under fire from the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday for awarding millions of dollars to executives. The hearing came just a day after the House Financial Services Committee passed a bill to convert execs' pay to the federal pay system.

    November 17, 2011
  • The new bill, passed in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, would require more consistent reporting of improper payments by federal agencies.

    October 19, 2011
  • The Office of Personnel Management is launching two surveys this summer, querying the federal workforce about employee benefits and members of the Senior Executive Service about hiring and retention.

    July 20, 2011
  • By Jolie Lee Federal News Radio Agencies have until May 23 to nominate career executives and senior professionals for the Presidential Rank Awards. The award goes to federal leaders who demonstrated “strength, integrity, industry and…

    April 29, 2011
  • The Senior Executives Association and the Partnership for Public Service testified before a subcommittee with improvement to SES and ways Congress can help.

    March 30, 2011
  • Federal Times editor Steve Watkins and senior writer Steve Losey, financial planner Arthur Stein, and president of the Senior Executives Association Carol Bonosaro join us to answer your questions.

    March 30, 2011
  • If you are a member of the SES, the bad news is that Uncle Sam wants you to give up all of the performance-pay raise you got last year. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says the good news is that you won\'t have to pay back what you\'ve already been given and probably spent.

    March 25, 2011
  • All federal workers have a political appointee as their big boss. And what they say goes, until they go. And Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says the clock is ticking for thousands of noncareer appointees who are on, or about to go on, life support.

    March 14, 2011
  • The Defense Department will cut 209 senior executives, according to a DoD memo sent to The Federal Times. The memo said 126 positions will be eliminated and 83 jobs will be downgraded to GS-15 positions,…

    February 21, 2011
  • The memo issued by the Offices of Personnel Management and Management and Budget lay out proposals for developing the Senior Executive Service.

    February 21, 2011
  • Carol Bonasaro, the president of the Senior Executive Association, says the public unpopularity of federal employees created a trying year for federal managers.

    December 06, 2010
  • President Barack Obama has signed an executive order that extends limits on lobbyists serving in the federal government.

    June 21, 2010
  • \"Performance management isn\'t just a good government idea, it quite frankly is a matter of surviving and hopefully thriving,\" says Michelle Snyder, deputy chief operating officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

    June 18, 2010