A subpanel within the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has started a series of hearings to gather ideas on how to facilitate reforms to the civil service system and assess
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The White House has issued new guidance to provide federal agencies information on exemptions permitted under the hiring freeze on federal civilian positions and instructions on how agencies can ask for exemptions
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has exempted contracting, construction and project management professionals from the federal hiring freeze as VA starts construction projects and leases at over 20 medical centers and health
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has issued a report that examines workforce diversity across 17 agencies that operate under the Intelligence Community. The Annual Demographic Report: Hiring and Retention of
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A Defense Department official has said DoD has begun to implement a “delayering” program at its headquarters in an effort to reduce personnel costs by 25 percent, DoD News reported Wednesday. David
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Brad Carson, acting defense undersecretary for personnel and readiness, is working to overhaul a Pentagon personnel management system that he believes has fallen behind developments in civilian human resources, Defense News reported Wednesday. Joe Gould writes
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Lawmakers from the upper and lower chambers of Congress have introduced identical bills that implement a 3.8-percent across-the-board pay increase for federal employees in 2016, GovExec reported Tuesday. Eric Katz writes that Rep. Gerry Connolly
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Federal agencies have cut at least 10,000 jobs in March and 85,000 total over the past year, GovExec reported Friday. A Bureau of Labor Statistics report cited by GovExec says approximately 1,200 jobs from the U.S.
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