Office of Personnel Management

OPM redefines the skills that 40K federal HR employees need

New competency models for human resources (HR) positions rethink the job skills necessary for more than 40,000 HR employees across government.

Hiring/Retention

New wrinkle on the notion of postponing your federal retirement

Retirement

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Close up of hands typing on laptop. Night work concept.

OMB holding agencies ‘accountable’ for 50% in-office presence

Workforce

NRC seeking to ‘build the bench’ with stronger HR skills

Workforce

Lawmakers urging expanded IVF coverage for FEHB enrollees

Open Season

return-to-office, OPM, Schedule F, White House, federal workers

Schedule F is dormant, but still haunts the civil service

Workforce Rights/Governance

Federal Employees Health Benefits program

Stricter FEHB requirements from OPM aim to root out ineligible members

Open Season

Kiran Ahuja stepping down as OPM director

Workforce

Feds can still take administrative leave to get COVID-19 booster shots

Benefits

FILE - In this Sunday, March 21, 2021 file photo a vial and syringes of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, at the Guru Nanak Gurdwara Sikh temple, on the day the first Vaisakhi Vaccine Clinic is launched, in Luton, England. AstraZeneca said Monday March 22, 2021 that advanced trial data from a U.S. study on its COVID vaccine shows it is 79% effective. The U.S. study comprised 30,000 volunteers, 20,000 of whom were given the vaccine while the rest got dummy shots. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)

OMB discards COVID-19 executive orders

Federal Newscast

Pathways Program overhaul seeks to open doors to more candidates

Workforce

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

OPM also made improvements in the inventory backlog shrinking it by 2,786, for a total of 16,823 claims in March, the lowest it’s been since December 2023.

Retirement

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

Federal Report

One federal office has turned to employee monitoring technology in recent years, and it’s led to a major rift between workers and management.