Pay & Benefits
House Votes to Ban Bonuses for All VA Employees Through 2016
Bill would expand veterans’ access to care outside VA facilities.
Management
Employers, You Should Not Be Selling the Job in the Interview
There’s only one person who should be doing the hard sell during an interview—and it’s not the employer.
Management
IRS Embraces Long-Sought Taxpayer Bill of Rights
Commissioner says public education tool will help employees do their jobs.
Nextgov
VA Schedulers Failed to Fully Use Wait List Software Created in 2002
Ignored internal system at least once on 731 facilities probed.
Tech
Need to Know Memo: Big Data Brings Advances, Perils
Breaking down a presidential panel's report on big data analytics.
Nextgov
Survey: Up to 70 Percent of Government IT Staff Will Depart Within 5 Years
The top workforce challenge identified by CIOs was workforce planning.
Pay & Benefits
House Panel Clears 1.8 Percent Pay Raise for Troops
Increase is higher than Senate and White House-backed plans.
Defense
Child Migrants Claim They're Being Abused By U.S. Border Officials
Some of the tens of thousands of children who have crossed the border since 2011 claim that they've been physically and verbally abused by border patrol agents.
Defense One
Where Will CENTCOM’s Post-War Funding Come From?
U.S. Central Command won’t be able to rely on the Pentagon’s war budget anymore to pay for counterterrorism operations around the world, a new report warns. By Stephanie Gaskell
Pay & Benefits
Agencies Will Start Hearing What Their Employees Really Think This Summer
OPM says it will begin sending feedback from the annual employee job satisfaction survey to agencies in August.
Management
Social Media Metrics for Government: A Manager's Handbook
How to make sure online efforts advance strategic goals.
Oversight
Prosecuting VA Officials Would be 'Shot Heard Around the System'
Sixty-nine VA facilities -- not including Phoenix -- are under investigation by the VA’s inspector general office.
Management
Hillary Clinton on Benghazi Scandal: 'It's More of a Reason to Run'
6 things we learned from Hillary Clinton's interview with Diane Sawyer.
Defense
Insiders Support Bergdahl Swap—but Just Barely
Not one expert said Eric Shinseki's resignation would fix the massive problems in the VA health care system.
Pay
Bill would eliminate controversial Border Patrol overtime system
Bipartisan legislation discussed during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing June 9 would eliminate administratively uncontrollable overtime (AUO) and create a more flexible pay schedule for Border Patrol agents.
Employee Policy
VA IG subpoenas watchdog group for whistleblower files
The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General has subpoenaed a government watchdog group, ordering it to turn over information the organization has collected through a confidential tip-line established to collect information from VA whistleblowers.
Employee Policy
Measure would head off plan to cut most USDA poultry inspectors
A House lawmaker has introduced an amendment to prevent the Agriculture Department from spending money to implement a proposed poultry inspection rule that would replace most federal inspectors with processing plant employees.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers Want to Overhaul Pay and Benefits for Border Patrol, Firefighters
Reformers hope to end widespread abuse of overtime privileges among border agents.
Oversight