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What is the proper role of union today? And do they help or hinder what JFK called the effective conduct of public business? We're exploring the question in a series of interviews this week.
If NAPA’s broader recommendations are to be realized, it will take the concerted efforts of OPM’s new leadership.
The National Academy of Public Administration detailed a solid path forward for the Office of Personnel Management, former agency executives and advocates say, but they're not convinced anyone has the political clout, influence and willpower to see it through.
The Biden administration quickly eliminated many of its predecessors' signature federal workforce policies. With the Schedule Fs and diversity/inclusion training bans gone, is there anything left from the Trump agenda to build on?
Ron Sanders, a longtime federal leader and three-year Trump administration appointee, said the president's recent EO would prevent career employees from speaking truth to power. He resigned in protest from his position as chairman of the Federal Salary Council.
The Federal Salary Council is not recommending any new areas for 2022. But the council did engage in debate over the future of the federal locality program.
GSA, DHS and other agencies are trying to address new challenges of hiring and onboarding employees during the pandemic emergency, and these changes are bringing agencies closer to modern human resources practices.
The Federal Salary Council is still debating a series of controversial changes to the methodology currently used to set federal employee locality pay.
Three members of the Federal Salary Council have made their official recommendations to the President's pay agent suggesting how to improve the way government evaluates and compensates federal employees.
The Federal Salary Council also offered some reassurance to federal employees in at least four areas where locality pay is still pending. Locality pay rates should be finalized in time for employees' first paychecks in January 2019, the Office of Personnel Management said.
In today's Federal Newscast, after spending 2017 with low budgets, the head of the Coast Guard says his service is now punching at the middleweight class.
The Federal Salary Council will also review the methodology it currently uses to determine the locality pay program.
More and more agencies are turning to alternative personnel systems as a solution to hiring, accountability or performance challenges.
These COOs frequently occupy deputy secretary positions that require Senate confirmation, many of which are vacant in the current administration. But it’s the people occupying these offices that are best positioned to make real changes in the way agencies perform their missions.