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  <description><![CDATA[A federal appellate court heard oral arguments Friday in a case that tests the balance between national security safeguards and civil service protections. The outcome could affect disciplinary appeal rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Obama announces pick for new OPM director]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Justice Department launches criminal probe at IRS]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The IRS inspector general blamed &apos;ineffective management&apos; for the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status by IRS employees in a report released late Tuesday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[IG frustrated by OPM&apos;s handling of improper payments to dead retirees]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management is failing to chase down suspected pension fraud in its quest to speed up pension processing, the agency&apos;s inspector general testified Thursday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pension accuracy slips as OPM picks up pace]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sequester Changes Rules on DoD  Contractor Background Reinvestigations]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Citing sequester and budget challenges, the arm of the Defense Department overseeing security clearances for contractors is cutting how much time people have to request so-called periodic reinvestigations.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Bill adds federal hiring preference for fathers of disabled vets]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Fathers would be treated the same as mothers when it comes to receiving federal hiring preferences if they have a child who is a totally disabled veteran, under a bill introduced May 6.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Leaders fear sequester&apos;s impact on recruitment, retention, service]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The constant drumbeat of bad news and poor morale in the government is hurting recruitment and retention of mid- and upper-level employees at the General Services Administration, acting administrator Dan Tangherlini said Monday.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management in April processed its third-highest number of federal pension claims.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sequester hits home for federal employees]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Until last year, the Office of Personnel Management&apos;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.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Partnership for Public Service names 31 medal finalists]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Government employees celebrate Public Service Recognition Week]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Federal, state and local government employees celebrate Public Service Recognition Week this year from May 5-11.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[OPM to begin charging CFC charities an application fee in 2015]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management plans to charge charities a first-ever application fee starting in 2015 to join the Combined Federal Campaign, according to fine print contained in its recently released budget request for next year.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Hagel: Furloughs must be consistent across DoD]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sequester forces OPM to cut pension overtime]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management announced Monday it has suspended all overtime for its employees working on processing federal retirees&apos; pensions.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Feds feel less empowered to innovate, survey finds]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Most federal employees look for ways to be innovative and do their jobs better, but an increasing number of feds don&apos;t feel empowered to do that, according to a new analysis by the Partnership for Public Service.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Budget cuts squelch hiring]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Hiring in the federal government has dropped by a third over the past three years as budget cuts have taken their toll.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Group presses for end to all furloughs at FAA]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[900 HUD employees affected in plan to close 16 field offices]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lawmakers press DoD to avoid furloughs]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[CFC pledges fell 6% last year]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Combined Federal Campaign pledges fell to $257.2 million in 2012, down more than $15 million &amp;#8212; about 6 percent &amp;#8212; from the preceding year, according to new federal figures.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[RIFs authorized at 60 AF installations&amp;#59; layoffs possible]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Air Force may have to lay off some employees to help meet its fiscal 2012 budget cut targets.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[GAO questions metrics of training effectiveness for contracting staffs]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The federal government spends tens of millions of dollars to train contracting officials each year, but agencies don&apos;t always know whether all the coursework is making a difference, the Government Accountability Office said in a report Tuesday.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Obama signs law to halt online posting of executives&apos; financial forms]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[President Obama signed legislation Monday that blocks the online posting of personal financial-disclosure statements of thousands of federal executives.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[At many offices, half of staff think of leaving]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[More than half of employees at the Department of Homeland Security&apos;s Office of the Secretary were considering leaving their jobs within a year, responses to the latest governmentwide employee satisfaction survey show.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[12,000 DoD civilian jobs to be axed]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department would cut civilian staffs by about 12,200 in fiscal 2014 under the administration&apos;s proposed budget, kicking off an expected five-year cycle of significant staffing cuts.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[OPM chief Berry stepping down this week]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry on Thursday announced he will step down when his four-year term expires at the end of this week.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[DoD planning 40K-50K civilian job cuts over next 5 years]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department is planning to cut its civilian workforce by about 5 to 6 percent &amp;#8212; between 40,000 and 50,000 positions &amp;#8212; by the end of 2018, Defense Comptroller Robert Hale said Wednesday.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:25:10 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Executives are happier than rank-and-file, report finds]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The government&apos;s top executives are far happier with their jobs and pay than rank-and-file employees, according to a report released Wednesday.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:48:34 -0400</pubDate>
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