DNI Clapper: No furloughs for civilian intel workers
Federal employees at civilian intelligence agencies will most likely be spared furloughs this year, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Tuesday.
- May. 15, 2013
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Federal employees at civilian intelligence agencies will most likely be spared furloughs this year, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Tuesday.
Federal agencies must creatively and aggressively recruit science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medical employees to keep up with rising demand and competition from the private sector, according to a new report that will be released Thursday.
The White House on Friday ordered agencies to start studying ways to narrow the pay gap between men and women in the federal government.
The former leaders of a White House deficit reduction commission are again urging dramatic cuts to federal employee benefit programs, with a goal of saving tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
Federal employees would be able to sign up for a “self plus one” health plan beginning in 2015 under Federal Employee Health Benefits Program reforms the White House is proposing in its fiscal 2014 budget.