Senate Democrats support Biden’s 4.6% federal pay raise proposal

This post first appeared on Federal News Network. Read the original article. Civilian federal employees are one step closer to a 4.6% across-the-board pay raise in 2023, and for the first time since at least 2014, are inching toward a lift of the pay freeze for political appointees in the Senior Executive Service. Senate appropriators (more…)

IRS gets $80B to ‘rebuild’ its capacity under Senate reconciliation deal

This post first appeared on Federal News Network. Read the original article. The IRS gets another shot at long-term investment in its enforcement and taxpayer services. The budget reconciliation package announced Wednesday night by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) would give the IRS $80 billion over the next 10 years, (more…)

F the civil service – again

This post first appeared on Federal News Network. Read the original article. Look at the news and it is hard to miss the articles regarding groups of former Trump Administration employees planning for a rebirth of Schedule F, the infamous plan to gut the federal civil service and replace tens of thousands of career civil (more…)

USPS may need 50K fewer employees under ‘break-even’ plan, DeJoy says

This post first appeared on Federal News Network. Read the original article. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says the Postal Service may need to reduce its employee headcount by 50,000 positions, as the agency looks to consolidate its network of facilities that process mail. DeJoy, speaking at the American Enterprise Institute on Wednesday, said he plans (more…)

Cyber grades bring down agencies’ scores in FITARA 14

This post first appeared on Federal News Network. Read the original article. The House Oversight and Reform Committee doesn’t plan to retire the data center category under the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard after all. The 14th version of the bi-annual grades released July 27 shows the committee will indeed retire the data (more…)

Information Technology and Cybersecurity: Using Scorecards to Monitor Agencies’ Implementation of Statutory Requirements

This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found Since November 2015, this Subcommittee has issued scorecards as an oversight tool to monitor agencies’ progress in implementing various statutory IT provisions and addressing other key IT issues. The selected provisions are from laws such as the Federal Information Technology Acquisition (more…)

Coast Guard: Actions Needed to Enhance IT Program Implementation

This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found The U.S. Coast Guard lacks a documented network capacity planning process. Network capacity planning is an important aspect of IT infrastructure planning that involves determining the network resources required to support an entity’s mission. However, the Coast Guard uses an ad (more…)

7 Tips to Mitigate the Risks of Summer Staff Parties

This post first appeared on Risk Management Monitor. Read the original article. With millions of employees continuing to work remotely part- or full-time, 2022 summer office outings may represent one of the first “all hands” get-togethers for many employers since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Indeed, 37% of respondents to spot surveys conducted by Seyfarth at (more…)

7 Tips to Mitigate the Risks of Summer Staff Parties

This post first appeared on Risk Management Monitor. Read the original article. With millions of employees continuing to work remotely part- or full-time, 2022 summer office outings may represent one of the first “all hands” get-togethers for many employers since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Indeed, 37% of respondents to spot surveys conducted by Seyfarth at (more…)