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Proposed legislation would prevent hourly wage employees from receiving a different locality pay adjustment than salaried employees working in the same location.
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, May 10, 2021, at 3:00 p.m.: The House Administration Committee will hold a hearing titled, Oversight of the January 6th Attack: United States Capitol Police Threat Assessment and Counter-Surveillance Before and During the Attack. The committee will hear testimony from Michael Bolton, inspector general of the Capitol Police.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021, at 9:30 a.m.: The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing on the nominations of Ronald Moultrie to be undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security and Michael McCord to be comptroller of the Defense Department.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021, at 10:00 a.m.: The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution will hold a hearing on ghost guns. The committee will hear testimony from Michael Harrison, commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department; Joshua Shapiro, attorney general of Pennsylvania; Nicholas Suplina, managing directo
Government Executive
email The Foundation of the GS System Has Become a Sham
The failure of the job classification system affects every HR practice and puts billions of dollars in payroll in question.
Workforce Management Consultant
The Government Accountability Office in 2001 added strategic human capital management to its list of high risk programs in need of broad reform, a distinction it has retained for two decades. What’s more, auditors noted in their 2021 ranking that it was one of five areas that had “regressed” since the previous assessment in 2019.
In a 2020 letter to the Office of Personnel Management, U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro made the point that OPM “had 84 open recommendations.” Further, the agency had implemented only three of 18 open priority recommendations. Those recommendations fall into six areas, including improving the federal classification system: