An independent commission could recommend cuts, consolidation or termination of individual government programs to Congress for an up-or-down vote, under a proposal by the former head of the Government Accountability Office.
When a National Security Agency contractor revealed top-secret details this month on the government's collection of Americans' phone and Internet records, one select group of intelligence veterans breathed a sigh of relief.
The Drug Enforcement Administration must take immediate steps to stop discrimination against female special agents seeking assignments abroad, under a new decision in a long-running class-action lawsuit.
The total federal workforce dropped by 14,000 employees in May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said June 7, bringing the government's staffing levels to its lowest point in more than five years.
New rules proposed last week by the Office of Personnel Management will allow federal employees to ease into retirement by working part time while receiving partial pensions — and could transform how managers handle generational shifts in their offices.
Work at the Marines' two major logistics bases will effectively shut down on days this summer when civilian workers are furloughed, the chief of Marine Corps Installations and Logistics said.
The Office of Personnel Management is planning to offer buyouts and early retirements to nearly 300 employees — and some of those buyouts are likely to result in slower pension processing times.
The American Federation of Government Employees is calling for an investigation into high levels of a potentially deadly bacterium at two Veterans Affairs Department facilities.
The size of the Pentagon's vast oversight organizations grew by more than 15 percent from 2010 to 2012, despite efforts to pare down the Defense Department's bureaucracy, an analysis by sister publication Defense News has found.
The Defense Department should cut its 800,000-strong civilian workforce as one of several steps to preserve military preparedness during a long-term budget crunch, 25 former government officials and other experts from across the political spectrum said in
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.
The IRS inspector general blamed 'ineffective management' for the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status by IRS employees in a report released late Tuesday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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