Executive Order: Recruiting and Hiring Students and Recent Graduates
An executive order sets up a new federal Internship Program, Recent Graduates Program and Presidential Management Fellows Program which are to be called the Pathways Programs.
Human Resources
Federal HR news topics include federal employee unions, labor relations, bargaining, pay/leave and benefits.
Executive Order on Federal Pay Adjustments
The President has issued an executive order implementing the 2011 federal pay rates.
Federal Employees as Nursing Mothers: Changing the Culture in the Federal Workplace
President Obama has given OPM delegated authority “to providing appropriate workplace accommodations for executive branch civilian employees who are nursing mothers.” What does this mean for your agency?
Department of Energy Announces its Own Pay Freeze
Following President Obama’s recent proposal for a two-year pay freeze for all civilian federal workers, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced a pay freeze for Department of Energy contractor employees.
Governmentwide Categories of Non-General Schedule Employees
Locality pay extensions; government-wide categories of non-general schedule employees
Extension of Locality Payments to Non-General Schedule Employees
The President’s Pay Agent has decided to extend the 2011 locality payments to the same Governmentwide and single-agency categories of employees authorized to receive the 2010 locality payments. If a pay freeze is enacted for 2011, these employees will be entitled to continue to receive locality payments at the 2010 level. Here is the OPM announcement.
FLRA’s Christmas Present to a Union?
Groucho Marx said “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” In a recent arbitration appeal, the FLRA reversed itself over an issue involving an agreement made by political direction with the union in the waning days of the Clinton Administration. The current Chairman, a member when the original case was decided did not dissent then but now gives the union not only a second bite of the apple but, arguably, the whole bushel. Is it a holiday gift? You decide.
Official Summary of Telework Enhancement Act of 2010
This is the CRS summary of HR 1722 which as become the “Telework Enhancement Act of 2010”
Telework Enhancement Act of 2010
2010 would require each agency to establish a policy under which employees may be authorized to telework to the maximum extent possible without diminishing employee performance or agency operations.
Telework Bill for Federal Agencies Passed By Congress
The “Telework Enhancement Act of 2010” has been passed by Congress and sent to the President for signature. The bill is designed to increase the amount of telework performed by federal employees and establishes requirements for agencies in implementing telework throughout most of the federal government.
