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 Defense Department plans to furlough some 680,000 civilian employees for 11 days by the end of September as the result of sequester-related budget cuts.
The White House on Friday ordered agencies to start studying ways to narrow the pay gap between men and women in the federal government.
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.
Commenting on how the White House’s proposed 2014 budget treats federal pay and benefits, William Dougan, head of the National Federation of Federal Employees, said: “With friends like these, who needs enemies?”
Dismantling the intelligence community’s first large-scale experiment with pay-for-performance cost the government $60 million, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said, and he has no interest in giving it another shot.
President Obama’s nominee for federal budget chief received a half-million-dollar signing bonus from her last job as president of Walmart’s charitable arm, according a recent financial disclosure form.