Drew Friedman

The Open Season extension comes after some Postal enrollees were struggling to review and make changes to their health care options in the new PSHB platform.

Office of Personnel Management Acting Director Rob Shriver sees several areas of opportunity to build on the forward momentum to reform federal hiring and retention.

Lawmakers called for a 4.5% federal pay raise to align with the military's expected 2025 raise. Currently, civilian feds are likely to get a 2% raise next year.

The Senate’s Social Security Fairness Act has 62 bipartisan cosponsors. Now pressure is building to push the bill to repeal WEP and GPO to a floor vote.

Oversight and Accountability Committee members set a deadline of Dec. 20 for agency leaders to respond to the request for information on federal telework.

In an effort to close a governmentwide skills gap, OPM sent a legislative proposal to Congress requesting statutory authority for all federal HR employees.

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The Chance to Compete Act requires agencies to assess job applicants based on their skills, instead of using candidate self-evaluations in federal hiring.

OPM said the years of delay on the administrative leave final rule came after “certain issues” arose in public comments on the proposed regulations in 2017.

The vote Thursday came shortly after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer committed to taking action on the Social Security Fairness Act at a rally last week.