Oversight
Executive diversity legislation gains support
Groups back House and Senate efforts to provide training for women and minorities.
Pay & Benefits
Experts call for top leaders at agencies to commit to diversity
Structural changes needed if agencies want to increase diversity of their workforces, panelists say.
News And Analysis
Cobbled Together In Crisis
Federal Executive Boards try to coordinate emergency response with patchwork of staffing and funding.
Features
The Good Fight
Dispatches from opposite sides of the debate about religion in the workplace.
Pay & Benefits
Telework Is a Tool
Treating it as a benefit misses its potential to improve overall performance.
Pay & Benefits
Generational stereotyping seen as barrier to recruiting
Experts say younger workers, like older employees, prefer to be treated as individuals, rather than as representatives of a generation with shared characteristics.
Pay & Benefits
Women, minorities underrepresented at top of congressional agencies
Report finds such organizations are only slightly better than executive branch agencies in terms of diversity among senior executives.
Defense
Customs, border workforce plagued with retention, morale problems
But senators learn there’s little consensus on how to address the issues.
Pay & Benefits
SEC, union sign new collective bargaining agreement
Contract establishes telework policy and flexible work schedules, but pay-for-performance issues remain unresolved.
News
Hearing on border officer training may focus on staffing issues
One of the challenges to delivering training effectively, GAO finds, is a shortage of personnel.
Oversight
Goal-setting, training called keys to telework
Agencies urged to view telework as an organizational tool, not a reward for high-performing employees.
Oversight
Report praises OPM’s workforce planning
GAO says agency responded aggressively to 2004 survey results, but could improve training and supervisor-employee relations.
Defense
Union leaders call for airport security training
Government needs to remove barriers to training to improve baggage screening and on-board safety, labor officials say.
Pay & Benefits
A Price to Pay
Locality pay rates in the Los Angeles area may have had hidden costs during the wildfires.
Oversight
Trade group calls for reforms to appointments process
Aerospace execs say the long process and pay disparities shut out strong candidates.
Oversight
Agencies mobilize assistance for wildfire victims
Efforts to disburse aid are running smoothly, but the extent of the need remains to be seen.
Tech
Credentials could ease hiring for IT security jobs
Agencies should follow the Defense Department’s model for IT employee certifications, representatives of professional organizations say.
Defense
Wildfires strain federal operations in Southern California
A shortage of personnel and a lack of information are hurdles to delivering assistance to federal employees and other affected Californians. Click here to view wildfire response photo gallery
Tech
IT expert says information security should be distinct field
Defense program creating professional standards already has proven beneficial, former government official says.
Oversight