Interior Department

Lawmakers push skills-based hiring for federal contractors

The bipartisan ACCESS Act, if enacted, would remove college degree requirements from jobs in the federal contracting space.

Hiring/Retention

New Interior Department rule expands an old one by thousands of miles

Workforce

Telework ‘essential’ to remaining a competitive employer, Interior official tells Congress

Congress

Seven federal agencies band together to form new ‘Climate Corps’

Federal Newscast

Agency chief human capital officers convene for 2023 fall forum in September. Image credit: Office of Personnel Management.

3 agencies that improved their FEVS response rates this year — and how they did it

Workforce

A big uptick in federal agencies’ deferred facility maintenance backlogs

Management

FILE - In this March 2, 2020, file photo, birds take off from a marsh in the Tulelake National Wildlife Refuge in the Klamath Basin along the Oregon-California border. One of the worst droughts in memory in the massive agricultural region straddling the California-Oregon border could mean steep cuts to irrigation water for hundreds of farmers this summer to sustain endangered fish species critical to local tribes. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees water allocations in the federally owned Klamath Project, is expected to announce this week how the season's water will be divvied up after delaying the decision a month. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File)

Despite massive bipartisanship, a pay raise for federal wildland firefighters is still at risk

Pay

House tech leadership biggest surprise of summer changes

Reporter's Notebook

After walking down a gravel road to do recon on a fire cresting into the trees, a wildland firefighter grimaces as he walks back to his crew on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, at the Bedrock Fire north of Lenore, Idaho. Lenore is about 30 miles east of Lewiston, Idaho. (Pete Caster/Lewiston Tribune via AP)

White House asks Congress to keep firefighters from falling off the pay cliff

The Biden administration is trying to address some more immediate spending needs through a supplemental request that will come up before Congress can pass…

Budget

You need a scorecard to track back-to-office policies

Agencies are hatching return-to-the-workplace policies one by one, and none of them quite match

Federal Report

Interior Dept reduces telework for executives, supervisors, managers