Hiring/Retention

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

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VA reviewing 4,000 positions at risk of pay downgrade

Pay

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Deputy Secretary Richard Verma participates in a recording session for Arizona State University’s diplomatic podcast, October 24, 2023.

State Dept workforce in ‘tough position’ with 13% staffing gap, says deputy secretary

Workforce

Some lawmakers offer more teeth to Biden’s Schedule F takedown

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A quarter of federal employees feel burnout, causing high turnover and low morale, study finds

Workforce

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New chief diversity and inclusion officer headed to State Dept

Federal Newscast

(AP Photo/Mike Groll)

FILE - This April 22, 2014, file photo shows an employment application form on a table at a job fair in Hudson, N.Y. Middle-age white Americans with limited education are increasingly dying younger, on average, than other middle-age U.S. adults, a trend driven by their dwindling economic opportunities, research by two Princeton University economists has found. The economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, argue in a paper released Thursday, March 23, 2017, that the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with high school degrees or less has triggered broad problems for this group. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Agencies navigating federal hiring challenges for employees with disabilities

Hiring/Retention

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

Workforce

O’Malley outlines plans to rebuild Social Security Administration workforce

Hiring/Retention

NSA women leaders find opportunities to ‘drive change and mission’

Inside the IC

TSA employees will keep their pay raises under 2024 spending deal

Pay

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

Congressional appropriators lay out six new agency reporting requirements on federal telework and return-to-office in the 2024 government spending agreement.

Budget

Homeland Security’s CWMD unit loses 10% of staff, faces continued attrition concerns

Attrition woes at the CWMD office come as it also grapples with some of the lowest employee engagement scores in the federal government.

Hiring/Retention

Amid safety concerns, AFGE urges Congress to increase Bureau of Prisons funding

Federal Newscast

Staff attrition would only exacerbate the Bureau of Prisons’ current 40% staffing shortage, the union said.