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Will 2012 be the year agencies focus on succession planning?
Pressure is growing on agencies to draft formal succession plans. There's good reason to believe more feds retired in late 2011 than in recent years, although the final count is not yet out.
Tags: succession planning , Agriculture , Interior , VA , John Sepulveda , Pam Malam , management , retirement , William Milton , Emily Kopp
January jumpers: Why some feds are retiring now
When they take the plunge into retirement, about half of all federal and postal workers do it in December or January, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. So is that a quirk of the calendar, or something else.
Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , Congress , hiring , retirement , benefits
Survivor: Endangered feds
For most of 2011, it looked as if federal workers were about to be bent, folded, stapled or otherwise mutilated by politicians. After the dust settled, the government is still with us. How come?
Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , Congress
2011 Buyout Guide
A list of federal agencies that considered or offered buyouts and early retirements in 2011.
Tags: buyouts , budget , management , pay and benefits , retirement , workforce reduction , VSIP , VERA , Ruben Gomez
Carolyn Davis takes lessons from federal career into new one
Davis retired after 42 years in government. She said she's tried to live by a few basic principles, get the job done, get it done right and get it done on time.
Tags: Carolyn Davis , Jason Miller , Federal Voices , HHS , FEMA , people
Anti-fed sentiment likely to linger, but future not all doom and gloom
John Palguta, vice president for policy at the Partnership for Public Service, talks about the top issues federal workers faced in 2011. Some were good and some were bad.
Tags: John Palguta , Federal Drive , Partnership for Pubic Service , shutdown , 2011 and Beyond , pay freeze ,
VA: Happy feds saved $200 million in turnover costs
The Department of Veterans Affairs avoided $200 million in turnover costs by investing in online training resources for employees, Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration John Sepulveda told Federal News Radio. He also explained how the VA plans to make veterans 40 percent of its workforce, weather the retirement tsunami and continue to be a federal leader on human capital issues in a wide-ranging interview.
Tags: John Sepulveda , CHCO Council , VA , pay and benefits , hiring , recruitment , retention , veterans , Disabled , Latino , Hispanic , employment , diversity , Emily Kopp
Feds glad to bid adieu to 2011, but will 2012 be better?
Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp counts down the top federal workforce stories of 2011 and makes some predictions fo 2012.
Tags: 2011 and Beyond , Emily Kopp , pay and benefits , Congress , OPM , retirement , CHCO Council , USPS , buyouts
AFGE's strategy for 'good government' hinges on 2012 elections
With no end to lawmakers' fedbashing in sight, the American Federation of Government Employees is looking forward to 2012's presidential and Congressional elections. "Federal workers are a sane, responsible group of citizens. They vote in big numbers," AFGE President John Gage told Federal News Radio.
Tags: Emily Kopp , John Gage , AFGE , unions , Labor , Congress , 2011 and Beyond , election
PTO ends one fast-track approval program, extends another
As it prepares to implement the changes enacted by a sweeping patent reform bill, the Patent and Trademark Office is ending one of the temporary fast-track programs it created to clear out its backlog of patent applications. Another is being extended.
Tags: USPTO , patent reform , Terry Rae , green technology , Jared Serbu
