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EPA nominee advances without GOP support
President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency has moved one step closer to getting the job, but it came without Republican support.
Tags: Gina McCarthy
EPA, HUD search for ways to keep mid-career feds
Mid-career employees are a scarcity in government. While agencies are awash with employees at the early career stage and those with 20-plus years of federal service, there aren't enough in the middle stages, and that has federal managers worried. Agencies like EPA and HUD are taking matters into their own hands. Both are launching new efforts aimed at keeping mid-career feds from leaving government for the private sector.
Tags: HUD , Shaun Donovan , DHS , Janet Napolitano , Bob Perciasepe , GSA , Dan Tangherlini , Partnership for Public Service , Public Service Recognition Week , employee morale , Jason Miller
OMB employees begin furloughs
The White House tells "a majority" of career staff not to come to work. It's the first of 10 furlough days over the next six months. Labor, FAA and EPA also have or are furloughing employees.
Tags: workforce , OMB , sequestration , furloughs , National Park Service , FAA , Jason Miller
Full-time EPA employees face 32 furlough hours
Craig E. Hooks, assistant administrator at EPA's Office of Administration and Resources, sent an email to all agency employees describing the agency's furlough plans. Full-time employees will be furloughed for 32 hours during the first phase of EPA's furlough process.
Tags: furloughs , sequestration , workforce , Craig Hooks , Michael OConnell
Energy nominee favors all-of the-above approach
Tags: Ernest Moniz , Energy Department , President Barack Obama , people , Gina McCarthy ,
Obama nominates next heads of EPA, Energy
President Barack Obama signaled his willingness to tackle climate change with his pick of Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, one of three major appointments he announced Monday.
Tags: Gina McCarthy , Sylvia Mathews Burwell , OMB , Ernest Moniz , Energy , President Barack Obama , people
Obama nominates Wal-Mart's Burwell as budget chief
Tags: Sylvia Mathews Burwell , OMB , Barack Obama , Jeffrey Zients , Energy Department , Ernest Moniz , Gina McCarthy
Union: EPA plans agencywide furlough days under sequestration
The Environmental Protection Agency is planning at least three agencywide mandatory furlough days through the end of the fiscal year if sequestration goes into effect, according to union officials who say they were briefed on agency plans. EPA also will implement employee furloughs in two phases, according to John J. O'Grady, the president of AFGE Local 704, which covers the Chicago region.
Tags: AFGE , sequestration , furloughs , John O
Federal Drive Interviews -- Feb. 18, 2013
Gordon Heddel of Booz Allen Hamilton talks about the challenges of creating a smarter but not bigger government. Aaron Miller of the Wilson Center discusses the hurdles awaiting new Secretary of State John Kerry. Bloomberg Government's Rob Barnett talks about President Obama's environmental policy. John Mahoney of Tully Rinckey says furloughed feds won't lose their rights.
Tags: Federal Drive , cybersecurity , Cybersecurity Update , DoD , DoD Report , Gordon Heddell , Aaron Miller , Labor Department , Booz Allen Hamilton , Wilson Center , Rob Barnett , Bloomberg Government , John Mahoney , Tully Rinckey , furloughs
