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Congress repeals STOCK Act reporting requirements for senior execs

Congress approved a bill Friday to eliminate expanded financial-disclosure reporting requirements for Senior Executive Service members, just days before the new requirements were to go into effect. Both the House and Senate approved the measure by unanimous consent. The expanded reporting requirements were set to go into effect Monday.

Tags: financial disclosure , SES , Sunlight Foundation , STOCK Act , Congress , House , Senate , Jack Moore , workforce , management

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Court puts temporary hold on STOCK Act reporting requirement

A district court judge has put a hold on the section of the STOCK Act that requires 28,000 federal executives to publish their financial information online.

Tags: Alexander Williams , STOCK Act , financial disclosure , Congress , Bill Bransford , management , technology , privacy , Jolie Lee

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Senator ends hold on Air Force chief nomination

The White House pick for Air Force chief of staff was confirmed by the Senate Thursday as members of Congress continued to press the service for answers about the widening sex scandal at a Texas air base.

Tags: John Cornyn , Congress , DoD , Air Force , Norton Schwartz , Lackland Air Force base , DoD Report

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Millionaires tighten (money) belts

Members of Congress, nervous about the economy and the upcoming November elections, have volunteered to tighten their own money belts. But in the process they may have turned thousands of top-paid federal workers into identify-theft targets, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , workforce , management , Congress , STOCK Act

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Show and tell time

There is a new game that is spreading like wildfire in government and among the media, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. It's a version of show and tell, except in this one you show us yours and we don't show you ours.

Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , workforce , STOCK Act , Carol Bonosaro , federal pay , FOIA

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Moran crafting bill to shake up Senior Executive Service

The federal government's top career folks would have to move out of their "comfort zones," under a bill that Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va) plans to sponsor to overhaul the Senior Executive Service. A new report shows nearly half of federal senior executives have never changed positions, contrary to what lawmakers envisioned when they created the SES in 1978.

Tags: Congress , management , workforce , retention , Jim Moran , SES , Partnership for Public Service , Carol Bonosaro , McKinsey & Company , Emily Kopp

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New SES appraisal system meant to align agencies

The White House has announced a new system for evaluating the performance of Senior Executive Service members. The system should establish greater consistency among agencies, according to a memo by the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management.

Tags: SES , OPM , OMB , workforce , management , performance management , Jeff Zients , John Berry , Emily Kopp , Carol Bonosaro , Steve Shih , Jeff Neal , Ron Sanders

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Congress passes bill to honor fallen feds

Agencies can give an American flag to the survivors of a federal employee who is killed in the line of duty under a bill passed Thursday by the Senate. The House unanimously approved the measure last month.

Tags: workforce , Congress , House , Senate , Richard Hanna , Carol Bonosaro , OPM , Emily Kopps

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Reality debunks the '9-to-5 Feds' stereotype

A common stereotype suggests that Federal workers enjoy cushy, 9-to-5 jobs. But is that true? Federal News Radio's Max Cacas continues our week-long special series, "The Five Fallacies of Government". Today: "Federal workers are in and out in 8 hours."

Tags: series , fallacies , management , Colleen Kelley , NTEU , John Gage , AFGE , Carol Bonnasarro , John Berry , OPM , Max Cacas

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Our Extremely Civil Service

After a dinner event last week, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey is more full of it than usual.

Tags: P&B , Nobel Laureate

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