Workforce
Measure to hasten firing of VA employees advances
The Biden administration has warned the new procedures are unnecessary and would only complicate the disciplinary process.
Workforce
Want successful integration of AI at federal agencies? Engage employees through the unions
COMMENTARY | AI will bring dramatic, disruptive, productive changes that can improve how the work of government is carried out over the next 10 years. To prepare for it, organizations will need to learn together and plan together.
Workforce
Sen. Kaine revives effort to ban Schedule F through the defense policy bill
This marks the second straight year that the Virginia Democrat has sought to attach a measure requiring congressional approval for new federal job classifications to the National Defense Authorization Act.
Workforce
Biden administration to Congress: Don't give us more authority to fire people
Legal hurdles to already failed approaches would only complicate the disciplinary process, officials say.
Pay & Benefits
House GOP plan to curb fed pay and benefits would come at a cost, experts say
Morale, recruitment and retention are likely to take a hit, and there are better ways to save money.
Workforce
Court opens up more discretion for reducing feds’ punishments
Federal employees facing firings will have an easier time mitigating that discipline to a lower form of punishment under new precedent.
Workforce
Feeling alone? Try a job share
COMMENTARY | Two former State Department job-sharers reflect on their experience serving the mission of the department and each other.
Management
Biden looks to swap leadership at civil service watchdog agencies
White House nominates a Trump appointee for a new role overseeing enforcement of civil service laws.
Workforce
DeSantis pledges to eliminate agencies and slash the federal workforce, following a long line of recent GOP candidates
Florida governor and presidential candidate says his administration would "fundamentally reshape Washington."
Workforce
Schedule F architects say the plan’s critics are ‘hyperbolic’
Officials behind the Trump administration’s abortive effort to strip tens of thousands of federal workers in policy positions of their civil service protections called concerns of politicization overblown, but espoused making all federal employees at-will.
Workforce
Republican leaders take another shot at easing the firing process for VA workers
Previous efforts to speed up firing at VA have fallen flat, but lawmakers are launching a new, bipartisan effort.
Workforce
Meet the long-shot presidential candidate who wants term limits for federal employees
Vivek Ramaswamy also pledges to eliminate unions, move workers out of Washington and end “pro-lazy” remote work.
Workforce
Fewer Federal Employees Are Reporting Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
At some agencies, the rates of harassment remain high.
Workforce
Bringing Federal Retirees Back Might Do More Harm Than Good. Here’s Why.
COMMENTARY | There are better ways to build, sustain and grow the federal workforce long-term than rehiring those who have already left it, one writer argues.
Workforce
An Effort to Make It Easier for Feds to Bust Their Own Union is Blocked by the FLRA
The American Federation of Government Employees applauded the decision, but with a FLRA-mandated union election scheduled for next month, the fight is far from over.
Workforce
Forcing Feds Into the Office Is a Mistake. Here's Why.
An arbitrary reduction in telework is likely to drive an exodus of qualified federal workers seeking flexibility to the private sector.
Workforce
There is No Firm Plan Yet for Feds' Pay in a Debt Ceiling Breach
GovExec Senior Correspondent Eric Katz joins the podcast to discuss the ongoing negotiations as a default looms.
Pay & Benefits
Fed Pay and Benefits Could be Hit Hard by Debt Ceiling Wheeling and Dealing
There are a few scenarios that could be bad for federal workers in the debt ceiling negotiations.
Workforce
Feds Could Be Fired at Any Time for Any Reason, Under a Bill That Was Just Reintroduced
The bill also would abolish the Merit Systems Protection Board and threatens to reduce former federal employees’ retirement benefits if they file “frivolous” appeals of adverse personnel actions.
Management