Which Agencies Have the Happiest SES Employees?
A new report ranks federal agencies by the level of job satisfaction expressed by employees in the Senior Executive Service.
Federal HR news topics include federal employee unions, labor relations, bargaining, pay/leave and benefits.
A new report ranks federal agencies by the level of job satisfaction expressed by employees in the Senior Executive Service.
Legislation has been introduced in the House that is designed to improve the hiring process at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The author says that agencies need a complete reworking of the performance appraisal process.
Which racial groups are the largest in the federal workforce and are there salary differentials? How is the racial composition of the workforce changing?
The author says that hiring managers have a crucial role in the hiring process. However, he says problems arise because many of them assume that everything but the selection is the job of human resources.
OPM is proposing several changes regarding the use of annual leave by federal employees. The changes will not impact a large number of federal employees but could impact some future disabled veterans.
A bill recently signed into law strikes words from federal law books such as “Negro,” “American Indian,” and “Oriental.” The term “illegal aliens” is still being debated in Congress.
The “Weingarten Right” stems from a Supreme Court decision that forever changed labor relations. The author looks at its history and application to government.
A bill that would pay bonuses to federal workers who identify unneeded or surplus funds in their agencies has taken another step towards becoming law.
A letter released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform gives credit to OPM rather than one of its contractors for discovering the data breach on the agency’s computer network that left the personal information of millions of current and former federal employees vulnerable.