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Users frustrated with the new, overwhelmed USAJobs 3.0
Federal jobseekers are complaining that the new version of the USAJobs.gov website is slow and clunky. The Office of Personnel Management had promised that it would be more streamlined and easier to use than the previous version. It is asking agencies that use the site to recruit to extend their application deadlines while it works out the kinks.
Tags: hiring , USAJobs.gov , technology , Gov 2.0 , OPM , John Berry , Emily Kopp , CHCO Council
One more year of pay freeze, contracting cuts in Senate committee recs
A Senate committee is recommending the super committee consider one more year of a federal pay freeze, increases to retirement contributions and a 15 percent cut to contracting at agencies.
Tags: Congress , super committee , Susan Collins , Joe Lieberman , pay and benefits , pay freeze , budget , management , Jolie Lee , Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government , senate homeland security and governmental affairs , senate homeland security and governmental affairs , Senate
How to select the best talent for your agency
Tim McManus, Vice President for Education and Outreach at Partnership for Public Service, recently held a workshop on how to select and hire the best talent.
Tags: Tim McManus , Partnership for Public Service , hiring , OPM , USAJobs , In Depth
GAO: Postal Service did not overpay CSRS account
The Postal Service has not paid too much for retirement benefits for employees under the Civil Service Retirement System. A report by the Government Accountability Office throws a wrench in the Postal Service's plan to return to profitability by accessing more than $50 billion now held for retirement benefits.
Tags: USPS , GAO , pay and benefits , Emily Kopp , Dennis Ross
Two whistleblowers get 45-day stay after OSC intervention
After the Office of Special Counsel intervened on their behalf, two federal whistleblowers won a 45-day stay on personnel actions taken against them.
Tags: Franz Gayl , paul hardy , whistleblower , FDA , public health service , Marine Corps , DoD , Office of Special Counsel , Merit Systems Protection Board , Jolie Lee , HHS
D.C. Labor FilmFest preview - October 14th, 2011
This week on AFGE's "Inside Government" D.C. Labor FilmFest Director Chris Garlock previews this year's event. AFGE Local 3403 President Carter Kimsey also discusses the impact of the Office of Personnel Management's 2011 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.
Tags: Inside Government , AFGE , Chris Garlock , carter kimsey , willie jolley
USAJobs 3.0 launches amid hopes of greater integration
The Office of Personnel Management launched today the latest version of the government's jobs site, USAJobs.gov, one day ahead of schedule. The agency says the new site will connect to both agency and contractor websites.
Tags: hiring , USAJobs.gov , technology , OPM , John Berry , Emily Kopp , FedScoop
DHS to limit employees' outside employment
The Homeland Security Department proposed a rule that would prohibit employees in certain DHS components from participating in certain outside jobs and activities. By drafting the proposals, DHS leaders are trying to prevent perceptions of conflicts of interest.
Tags: ethics , DHS , CBP , ICE , FEMA , management , policy , personnel issues , Ruben Gomez
Top-heavy feds: The rise of high-level pay grades
More federal employees are now concentrated in higher pay grade levels, as technology has shifted jobs to higher skills and retirements has created a need to fill more senior positions.
Tags: Steve Watkins , Federal Times , Mike Causey , pay and benefits , GS system , OPM , Jolie Lee , management , hiring ,
Debating the good and bad of labor-management forums
Councils of union representative and agency leaders are making employees happier and the government run more smoothly, federal personnel leaders told a Senate committee. But mid-level managers say they should be invited to the table because they're usually the ones to implement policies.
Tags: management , Ron Johnson , national council on federal labor management relat , OPM , John Berry , FMA , Pat Niehaus , gregory juneman , NFFE , Emily Kopp , National Council on Federal Labor Management Relat
