News Briefs

THE DAILY FED

News Briefs

The following news summaries are from OPM AM, the daily newsletter of the Office of Personnel Management. OPM AM is available on OPM Mainstreet, the agency's electronic bulletin board, at 202-606-4800.

NO RESIGNATIONS--"Administration political appointees worried about whether they'll be staying on in a second Clinton term will be glad to know that the president is not going to ask all 2,600 full-time political jobholders to submit their resignations" (The Washington Post).

THE FEDERAL DIARY--"Buyout takers who are paid by contractors performing services for the government can, in many instances, keep their going-away money. But feds planning to return as personal services contractors will have to repay the entire amount of that buyout..." (The Washington Post).

JOB SHARING--"On the whole, job sharing is working out." A pamphlet published by OPM, "Balancing Work and Family Demands Through Part-time Employment and Job Sharing," says that in 1994 86.4 percent of part-time federal employees held white-collar jobs with 29.8 percent of them professional positions (Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Il, October 8).

JOBS ON LINE--"OPM has built a new World Wide Web site for listing all current government job openings, known as USA Jobs. OPM officials said the new employment home page rounds out their stable of electronic employment services" (Government Computer News, Silver Spring, MD, October 7).

CORPORATE WOMEN--"If only corporate America would make it easier for women to take care of their duties at home, they could at last compete on an equal footing with men in the workplace--and rise to the top. That, at least, was the much heralded theory of the 1980's. A comparison of two recent reports suggests, however, that it is not working out that way in the 1990's" (The New York Times).

OTHER VIEWS--Evidence mounts that privatization of certain government functions works (Eagle, Butler, PA, October 21).

OF INTEREST--Managers who use the team method--with skill-- are the ones who will achieve (The Federal Times, Work Hits Home, November 11)...Time to rethink those thrift investments (The Federal Times, Money Matters, November 11)...Public Employees Roundtable puts a face on government workers (Geico Direct, Fall 1996).