Sort of a flip side to the Obama administration raising spending levels at many regulatory agencies -- the Obama administration is not raising the spending levels of some of these agencies inspectors general. Each federal agency has an inspector general ...

The Wall Street Journal's Sara Murray reports that if you need a job you should think about becoming a civil servant...maybe. While the private sector is still in recession/layoff mode, the federal government needs to hire 241,000 employees over the next three years (this isn't because Barack Obama is ...

Good news for all of you who can’t stand bureaucratese. A Senate committee has passed a bill that requires federal agencies, in the words of the Washington Post’s Joe Davidson, "to write their job announcements in plain language rather than the dense government jargon so common in this town." ...

The Washington Post's Joe Davidson reports on a tiff between the Obama administration and federal employees over pay-for-performance. American Federation of Government Employees union head John Gage has threatened "to go nuclear" if Obama Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry tries to implement any pay-for-performance model for federal ...

You don't want the people telling America's story to the world to hate their place of work (that would be the U.S. government).  Unfortunately, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which oversees the Voice of America, Al-Hurra television, and numerous other overseas broadcasting and Internet outlets is the least popular ...

Robert Pear of the New York Times looks at a handful of federal cases that may determine whether the same-sex partners of federal employees deserve the same health insurance benefits as federal employees. It's an issue where the Office of Personnel Management -- the federal agency that manages the ...

If you’re a manager – or an employee with a manager – who needs help in buttressing key supervisory skills, help is here!

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) just launched a tool designed to make managers better at their jobs.

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