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Getty Images/iStockphoto/mohd izzuanStethoscope and money on wooden table representing health care, FEHB plans.

OPM tells FEHB carriers to prepare for USPS health program’s launch

Alongside preparations for the 2025 plan year for FEHB, OPM outlined clearer plans for implementing the Postal Service Health Benefits program.

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For agencies, limited resources are a major challenge to scaling workforce innovations

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OPM’s retirement processing finishes strong for 2023, but still ‘not where we need to be’

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Agencies would see broader applicant pools, more flexibility in Pathways Program under OPM proposal

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OPM making plans to broaden the applicant pool for paid federal internships

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Agencies to ‘remove barriers’ to cyber hiring under new workforce strategy

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OPM turns to agency leaders to promote new intern experience program

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Drew Friedman, Federal News NetworkJapan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, and NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann, speak to federal interns at experience program launch event. Photo by Drew Friedman, Federal News Network.

NASA helps launch a new program, and it’s not going to space

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NARA becomes latest agency to expand telework in new union agreement

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(AP Photo/Mike Groll)FILE - This April 22, 2014, file photo shows an employment application form on a table at a job fair in Hudson, N.Y. Middle-age white Americans with limited education are increasingly dying younger, on average, than other middle-age U.S. adults, a trend driven by their dwindling economic opportunities, research by two Princeton University economists has found. The economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, argue in a paper released Thursday, March 23, 2017, that the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with high school degrees or less has triggered broad problems for this group. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Congress sets a deadline for federal hiring reform in omnibus spending bill

The omnibus spending bill would give the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget 120 days to come up with a plan to speed…

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CHCO Council looks to scale, replicate successful pilots for federal hiring reform

The Chief Human Capital Officers Council hopes to duplicate and scale up successful pilots for federal hiring reform, including the use of shared certificates…

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(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Sun shines on the U.S. Capitol dome, Tuesday, March 2, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Senate confirmation process lags as leadership vacancies remain

Biden’s nominees requiring Senate confirmation take 127 days, on average, to get through the process, the Partnership for Public Service said.

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