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Agencies are exploiting loopholes or issuing restrictive policies, confounding staff.

Officials are looking to revive a controversial order issued in Trump's waning days and have already identified 50,000 federal positions to target.

There's a lot to keep track of. Here’s today’s list of news updates and stories you may have missed.

Government Executive email A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news. Officials at the agency that administers the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings program said Wednesday that they take issue with a number of legislative proposals currently under consideration in Congress in some form. Last week, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., introduced legislation that would bar the Thrift Savings Plan from allowing participants to invest in any index that includes investment in ...

Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email Former Obama adviser to lead Bidens management agenda. Senior Correspondent President-elect Joe Biden has named Jason Miller as his government management czar, tapping a former Obama administration economic adviser for the key role in setting the president’s management and federal workforce agenda.  Miller served under Obama from 2010 until the end of his second term...

Government Executive email Its Time to Rethink Employee Performance Management The Trump administration’s plan to link layoffs to performance ratings is not credible because the ratings themselves are not credible. Workforce Management Consultant An Office of Personnel Management proposal to link layoffs to performance ratings was unexpected. If the ratings were valid, it would make sense but ratings have little credibility. Jacque Simon, speaking for the American Federation o...

Trump administration proposes that employee performance be a top factor during federal layoffs Eric Yoder In the latest of a string of moves to put its stamp on federal workplace policies, the Trump administration is set to propose rules to make employees’ performance ratings a top consideration in deciding who stays or goes during layoffs. A proposal to be published Thursday by the Office of Personnel Management would elevate job ratings among the considerations during t...

Country during the holiday season. this is not about politics for any of them. its about going to work, doing their jobs and supporting their families. >> well, what we know is and we learned this in this hour, that the house has been told stay home. theyll not have anything to vote on this week at least. jacque simon, thank you for taking the time to talk with us. were just moments from the closing bell. the dow, what? now in positive territory. erasing a 600-point drop earlier in the day. we...

Interfered with my ability to bring home a paycheck. its just a -- its a disaster all the way around. >> jacque simon, public policy director at the american federation of government employees. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> still ahead for you, a top diplomat resigning in protest after splitting with the president over syria policy. the short and long-term implications of that. m er implications of that