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Veteran hires at highest level in 20 years
Nearly three in every 10 new hires in the government is a veteran, marking the highest percentage of new hires in more than 20 years. Just two out of the 24 agencies in the President's Council on Veterans Employment failed to meet their goals. The council released Tuesday preliminary fiscal 2011 employment data.
Tags: Emily Kopp , veterans , employment , workforce , OPM , John Berry , DHS , Treasury , NRC
Shiu: Contractors who miss disability goals face debarment
A proposed Labor Department rule to mandate 7 percent of federal contractors' workforce be disabled people is aimed at elevating the importance of disability hiring to the level of affirmative action for race and gender, a Labor official said.
Tags: Patricia Shiu , Labor , disabilities , contracting , workforce , affirmative action , Federal Drive
Tips for agencies when hiring veterans with disabilities
Agencies are increasing the number of disabled veterans in their ranks as they try to fulfill White House hiring mandates. But there's still a lot of unease about how disabled vets will fit into civilian environments. "The civilian workplace is a really bizarre place" for veterans, said workforce and diversity consultant Lisa Stern at a recent training she gave federal hiring officials in Bethesda.
Tags: DoL , workforce , disabilities , veterans , Lisa Stern , diversity , Emily Kopp
Labor sets disabled worker hiring goal for contractors
The Labor Department is proposing a rule to mandate that seven percent of federal contractors' workforce is people with disabilities.
Tags: Labor , workforce , disabilities , Patricia Shiu , Trey Hodgkins , TechAmerica , industry
Is your office vulnerable to a defamation lawsuit?
Debra Roth, a partner at Shaw, Bransford and Roth, discusses the implications surrounding the recent case of a Medal of Honor recipient suing his former employer for defamation.
Tags: Debra Roth , Federal Drive , contracting , lawsuit , workforce , workforce issues
OPM's onboarding framework to ease SES' new-job jitters
The Office of Personnel Management has published an onboarding framework that agencies can use to ease the new-job jitters for members of the Senior Executive Service. Thorough orientation can increase retention, said OPM deputy associate director Steve Shih.
Tags: OPM , workforce , Senior Executive Service , Steven Shih , best practices , Emily Kopp
OPM to hire CTO to handle USAJobs, retirement system
The Office of Personnel Management faces a House subcommittee today to answer questions about its handling of the USAJobs relaunch.
Tags: OPM , USAJobs , technology , workforce , House , Emily Kopp , Patrick McFarland , Valerie Melvin , Patrick Manzo , John Berry , Stephen Lynch , Dennis Ross , Connie Mack , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Monster Government Solutions , cybersecuirty
Lawmakers to question OPM's handling of USAJobs
The widespread frustration over the Office of Personnel Management's handling of USAJobs.gov has caught lawmakers' attention. The House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce has invited OPM, government inspectors and Monster, the company that previously ran the federal jobs site, to testify at a hearing Tuesday.
Tags: John Berry , OPM , USAJobs , workforce , technology , Monster Government Solutions , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Pat Tamburrino , DoD , Dennis Ross , Emily Kopp , Bob Lam , Ron Johnson , John Kerry , CHCO Council
Obama urges help for veterans in radio address
Tags: workforce , veterans , Barack Obama
Labor Department rolls out job-search website for veterans
Jane Oates, the assistant secretary for the Employment and Training Administration at the Labor Department, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss how a new veteran-specific job website works.
Tags: workforce , Labor , VA , DoD , My Next Move , Jane Oates , Federal Drive
