Defense

Job tenure taken out of the equation in NSPS transition

Pentagon secures a waiver from time-in-grade rules for certain employees moving back to the General Schedule.

News

Agencies Are Communities

Pay & Benefits

Merits of internship programs under debate

Programs should include evaluation of participants’ fitness for full-time work, association says.

News

Sunday Pay for Part-Time Workers

Pay & Benefits

Agencies urged to hire more grad students noncompetitively

The standard process hurts candidates with good academic credentials but little work experience, association of schools argues.

News

Open Government Bonanza

Pay & Benefits

Routine Flexibility

The prospect of eliminating the traditional office altogether could make telework customary.

Pay & Benefits

Program to let employees work where and when they want takes shape

Personnel agency is evaluating existing rules and policies as it undertakes a trial run in Washington and Pennsylvania.

Oversight

OPM launches tool to cut red tape in hiring

Shared databases would shorten hiring process for certain jobs and eliminate duplicative applications.

News

Messaging Health Care Implementation

News

Basic Accounting

Oversight

Council OKs agencies’ labor-management plans

National panel approves more than half of 45 proposals submitted on improving relations between unions, agency leaders.

News

Measures of Influence

News

Workflow Issues

Oversight

Report calls compromise cornerstone to hiring reform

Government and industry leaders warn against viewing IT and regulatory change as panacea to recruiting challenges.

News

GAO Gaps