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White House asst. chef says he will be furloughed
Assistant chef Sam Kass, who cooks dinner for President Barack Obama several nights a week, said Tuesday that he will be furloughed as part of across-the-board budget cuts that went into effect in March.
Intel community seeks to protect workforce from sequestration's impact
James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, said the 17-agency community is trying not to repeat lessons of past cuts that hampered analytical capabilities. Clapper also issued a new IC-wide code of ethics and made a key change to the security clearance form.
Tags: workforce , James Clapper , ODNI , budget , security clearances , ethics , Jason Miller
Analysis: Pay, benefits, O&M will swallow entire DoD budget by 2024
Absent structural changes, the combination of 10-year budget caps Congress has already approved and rising growth in personnel costs mean DoD would be able to sign paychecks, administer healthcare benefits and not much more.
Tags: Congress , workforce , DoD , budget , 2014 budget , Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments , Todd Harrison , Jared Serbu
FAA delays closing of airport control towers
Tags: FAA , budget , Congressional Research Service ,
What's going on in the federal job market?
Linda Rix, co-CEO of Avue Technologies, will discuss the latest hiring trends in the federal government, and a new program her company has started to help job seekers.
April 5, 2013
Tags: workforce , Linda Rix , Avue Technologies , federal hiring , wildfire exchange , Derrick Dortch , Fed Access , continuing resolution , hiring trends
No civilian furloughs in 2014, Pentagon promises
DoD says it's committed to making sure civilians are not furloughed in fiscal 2014, which begins in October. But if sequestration remains in place, the alternative would almost certainly be involuntary reductions in force for both civilian workers and uniformed service members, officials say.
Tags: DoD , budget , furlough , Robert Hale , Danny Werfel , Association of Government Accountants , Jared Serbu
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: EPA , furloughs , workforce , Craig Hooks , Michael OConnell
Sequestration hits us all (and I do mean all)
When it comes to the perils of sequestration, it appears that federal workers are all over the place, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. Some say it's just another political fire drill, while others say this time for sure. Been-there-done-that workers say this too shall pass. But paycheck to paycheck people say furloughs could wreck their financial lives. So, where are you in all this?
Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , workforce , furloughs
OMB offers updated guidance to agencies facing sequestration cuts
The Office of Management and Budget has directed agencies to take full advantage of the funding flexibilities they have under law as they implement across-the-board sequestration cuts, that went into effect March 1. In an April 4 memo, OMB Controller Danny Werfel also directed agency and department leaders to be mindful of certain types of performance awards and to work with agency inspectors general before making cuts to IG offices.
Tags: OMB , budget , management , Danny Werfel , performance awards , IG , Jack Moore
