Office of Personnel Management

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

OPM retirement backlog continues improvement in processed claims for March

Retirement

With ‘spying bosses’ on the rise, where do federal agencies stand on employee monitoring?

Federal Report

Biden administration working on hiring tools to help agencies compete for AI talent

Artificial Intelligence

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OPM outlines how agencies, unions can recreate labor-management forums

Unions

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Image representing concept of employees being fired through Schedule F.

Biden administration locks in plans aiming to block Schedule F for good

Workforce

Transgender federal employees want more training, communication around gender inclusion

Workforce

More guardrails needed for any potential agency relocations, federal advocates say

Workforce

Congress calls for more details on federal telework in 2024 spending package

Budget

Federal HR leaders rethinking employee engagement by embracing feedback

Workforce

Workforce cohort outlines specific ‘blueprint’ for civil service reform

Workforce

Federal Wage System for blue-collar feds puts some above, others below, local rates

After decades of annual pay caps, wages for blue-collar feds in 75% of Federal Wage System localities no longer align with “prevailing” local rates.

Pay

FILE- This Sept. 19, 2013, file photo shows workers at the Target Technology Innovation Center office in San Francisco. The job market has changed under President Barack Obama's 8 years. Young people are flooding in as the elderly retire. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

White House looking to invest more in younger government workforce

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Biden administration is eyeing more investments for federal early-career hiring in fiscal 2025.

Federal Newscast

OPM prioritizing pooled hiring, HR workforce in 2025 budget

Budget

OPM’s request for $465.8 million in discretionary fiscal 2025 spending looks to scale up development of early-career talent, the HR workforce and more.