The Department of Veterans Affairs announced it will bolster its mental health staff by adding about 1,900 new positions —1,600 clinicians, including nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers; and about 300 support staff.
The Air Force announced new hiring flexibilities for a third round of civilian buyouts and early outs to help minimize the negative effects the department’s downsizing measures have on its workforce.
The Air Force on March 23 said it would open a third round of buyouts and early outs to reduce civilian staffing levels.
More than 100 House members signed a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta asking him to abandon the plan to reduce the Defense Department’s civilian workforce to fiscal 2010 levels.
Two career counselors tell FEND that young job candidates really aren’t turning away from federal employment. Not yet, anyway.
A new research report says that while the Senior Executive Service has failed to become the mobile corps of federal leaders envisioned when the SES was created nearly 35 years ago, there are ways to reach that goal today.
A recent, national survey of college students indicates that only a small fraction of them say they plan to work for the federal government—and recent events and media coverage may be partially to blame.
A former Financial Management Analyst with the Department of the Navy won his most recent appeal in the whistleblower protection case he is pursuing against his former employer.
A probationary employee with the State Department lost her most recent appeal of her separation from that department.
The Air Force said this month that it will cut 4,500 more positions to round out its fiscal 2012 civilian workforce restructuring.