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  1. Passengers line up to a Transportation Security Administration officer at Portland International Airport in Oregon. Because of the sequester, TSA has cut employees' overtime hours. Natalie Behring / Getty Images

    Sequester hits home for federal employees

    Until last year, the Office of Personnel Management's program to process federal employee retirements was a sluggish, bureaucratic morass that left new retirees waiting six months to a year for their full pensions.

    • May. 6, 2013
  2. Police stand guard near New Jersey beach homes that were damaged by Superstorm Sandy in November. Mark DeMaria, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration supervisory meteorologist, is a finalist for a Service to America Medal for his work to improve hurricane forecast models and reduce storm damage. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

    Partnership for Public Service names 31 medal finalists

    The Partnership for Public Service has named 31 federal employees or federal employee teams as Samuel J. Heyman Service to America finalists. They will be honored May 7 in Washington as part of Public Service Recognition Week.

    • May. 5, 2013
  3. Government employees celebrate Public Service Recognition Week

    Federal, state and local government employees celebrate Public Service Recognition Week this year from May 5-11.

    • May. 3, 2013
  4. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has rebuffed calls to give the military services the flexibility to reduce or eliminate furloughs for civilian workers on their own. Jim Watson / AFP

    Hagel: Furloughs must be consistent across DoD

    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has rebuffed calls to give the military services the flexibility to reduce or eliminate furloughs for civilian workers on their own.

    • Apr. 30, 2013
  5. NASA has been ranked the most innovative large agency for three consecutive years in an analysis by the Partnership for Public Service. Pictured: NASA employees celebrate as the first pictures appear on screen after a successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover on Aug. 5. Brian van der Brug/Getty Images, pool

    Feds feel less empowered to innovate, survey finds

    Most federal employees look for ways to be innovative and do their jobs better, but an increasing number of feds don't feel empowered to do that, according to a new analysis by the Partnership for Public Service.

    • Apr. 29, 2013
  6. The Federal Aviation Administration should use newly approved budget latitude to cancel furloughs for all agency employees, not just air traffic controllers, the head the FAA Managers Association urged Friday. Brendan Hoffman / Getty Images

    Group presses for end to all furloughs at FAA

    The Federal Aviation Administration should use newly approved budget latitude to cancel furloughs for all agency employees, not just air traffic controllers, the head of the FAA Managers Association urged Friday.

    • Apr. 26, 2013
  7. After the current downsizing is complete, every state will still have at least one field office, according to HUD. File

    900 HUD employees affected in plan to close 16 field offices

    Nine hundred Housing and Urban Development Department employees may have to move or change jobs under a restructuring that will close 16 of 80 field offices by this fall.

    • Apr. 25, 2013
  8. Defense Secreary Chuck Hagel said last week that DoD officials were “probably a couple of weeks away” from making a final decision on the number of furlough days that will be needed. Mark Wilson / Getty Images

    Lawmakers press DoD to avoid furloughs

    The Defense Department should rethink its plans for furloughs and other cutbacks to its civilian workforce, a bipartisan group of 126 House members said in a letter Tuesday to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

    • Apr. 24, 2013
  9. RIFs authorized at 60 AF installations; layoffs possible

    The Air Force may have to lay off some employees to help meet its fiscal 2012 budget cut targets.

    • Apr. 17, 2013
  10. Defense Comptroller Robert Hale said the Defense Department will shed between 40,000 and 50,000 positions, about 5 to 6 percent of its total staffing levels, by the end of 2018. Chris Maddaloni / Staff file photo

    12,000 DoD civilian jobs to be axed

    The Defense Department would cut civilian staffs by about 12,200 in fiscal 2014 under the administration’s proposed budget, kicking off an expected five-year cycle of significant staffing cuts.

    • Apr. 14, 2013
  11. Report shows gaps in cyber workforce

    Today’s typical federal cybersecurity professional is over 40 years old and a GS-13 with more than 10 years of information technology experience.

    • Apr. 4, 2013
  12. The Defense Department will consider layoffs and other long-term downsizing options if Congress doesn't undo plans for sequesters in 2014 and beyond, according to Comptroller Robert Hale. Defense Department

    DoD will consider layoffs if sequester continues beyond this year

    The Defense Department will consider layoffs and other long-term downsizing options if Congress doesn’t undo plans for sequesters in 2014 and beyond, according to Comptroller Robert Hale.

    • Apr. 2, 2013
  13. Many furloughs will be rolled back

    The Defense Department and at least a handful of other agencies are rolling back or rethinking plans for civilian employee furloughs in the wake of a newly passed spending bill for the rest of fiscal 2013.

    • Mar. 31, 2013
  14. Feds rank worst bosses, best bosses

    One Internal Revenue Service employee says her boss's attitude and management style have given her anxiety attacks and caused morale to drop across her office.

    • Mar. 31, 2013
  15. National Park Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees are among those most dissatisfied with their workloads. GNS

    The most overstretched agencies, according to feds

    Minja Kamatovic has seen her workload swell as colleagues retire and their positions remain unfilled.

    • Mar. 18, 2013
  16. How we calculated this list

    We obtained all 687,687 employee responses to statements measuring job satisfaction on the 2012 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. We focused on responses to two specific survey questions, No. 9: “I have sufficient resources (for example, people, materials, budget) to get my job done” and No. 10: “My workload is reasonable.” Employees could respond in one of six ways: agree, strongly agree, disagree, strongly disagree, neither agree nor disagree, or do not know.

    • Mar. 18, 2013
  17. Furlough strategies vary wildly

    More than half of the federal workforce is likely to be furloughed over the next six months as agencies grapple with the sequester’s devastating budget cuts.

    • Mar. 17, 2013
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