Dennis Kirk

Merit Systems Protection Board, files, seal, stack, papers

Historic absences at MSPB hit 4-year mark, creating potentially costly backlog

The Merit Systems Protection Board marked four straight years this month without a quorum. While some are hopeful the incoming administration will quickly…

Workforce Rights/Governance

(AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

With 12 days until Inauguration Day, OPM announces temporary SES hiring freeze

SES

(AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Lack of transition support from OPM raises concerns the agency has become politicized

Workforce

Amelia Brust, Federal News Network

telework, work at home, office, federal employee

OPM pauses all agency diversity and inclusion training amid mandatory review

Workforce

Workforce training takes on new focus in Trump administration’s 2020 priorities

Workforce

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Stalled MSPB nominee to lead key workforce policy shop at OPM

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Trump nominates long-awaited third MSPB member

Workforce

Senate committee clears 2 nominees, but for now leaves MSPB’s future hanging by a thread

Workforce Rights/Governance

A member-less MSPB more likely as Senate committee fails to clear pending nominees

In restoring a quorum, new MSPB nominees face 4-digit backlog

Workforce Rights/Governance

In this image from video provided by Senate Television, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. At 1:29 a.m. on July 28, McCain strode onto the Senate floor. The 80-year-old, just weeks after a diagnosis of aggressive brain cancer, was poised to cast the tiebreaker vote on the GOP’s health care bill, in what was meant to be the fulfillment of seven years of work to undo President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. McCain paused for a moment, and then gave the measure a thumbs-down. Some of his fellow Senators, in the dark on the elder legislator’s plans, gasped. The bill was dead. For an administration that has spent 2017 throwing off headlines at a stunningly dizzying pace, the frenetic fortnight in the second half of July reached an unparalleled breakneck speed. Set amid the backdrop of a president grappling with his deepest insecurities, the West Wing’s breakdown in policy collided with its collapse in personnel and acted as a crucial inflection point for Donald Trump’s first year in office. (Senate Television via AP)

Trump’s pick to take over CIA faces powerful skeptic in the Senate

Federal Newscast

Tighter quarters could be coming to your agency

In today’s Federal Newscast, 24 agencies plan to consolidate their office space in the coming years according to the Government Accountability Office.

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