Kiran Ahuja previously served as executive director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and chief of staff at OPM. Credit: Paul Chang, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
If confirmed, Kiran Ahuja will become the first Indian-American to lead the Office of Personnel Management in the US. Josh Lowe reports on her career so far and what we can learn from her recent appearance before a senate committee
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Federal workers who are younger than 62 and eligible for an unreduced Federal Employees Retirement System benefit also are eligible for a temporary extra benefit, the FERS annuity supplement. This group includes those who retire under special provisions for law enforcement officers, firefighters and air traffic controllers as well as regular FERS retirees who retire at their minimum retirement age with 30 or more years of service or at age 60 or 61 with at least 20 years of service. Those who retire under Voluntary Early Retirement Authority (also known as “early out” offers) are entitled to begin receiving the FERS supplement at their MRA.
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The director thanked employees for their hard work and resilience over the past year.
Ahead of budget negotiations ramping up, the Secret Service director on Thursday told House lawmakers he would like continued funding for staffing increases, retention of current employees and cybersecurity.
Secret Service Director James Murray praised his workforce during a House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing and highlighted several ongoing and future investments that would support the agency’s employees. So far, President Biden has only released an outline of his fiscal 2022 budget proposal, with a full version expected later this spring.
“We are highly committed to our human capital strategic plan, which gets the agency to somewhere around 9,595 [employees] by fiscal year 2026,” so funding will be critical for that, Murray told the subcommittee. The agency––which had 7,609 employees as of December 2020, according
Have the DoD’s special hiring practices hurt more than helped? May 6 The union representing many Department of Defense employees argues that special hiring authorities are the reason the agency struggles to fill out its workforce. (pepifoto) The Department of Defense has dozens of civilian hiring authorities at its disposal, some unique only to that agency, in order to bring on the best and most flexible talent in service of the nation’s defense. But according to the union that represents approximately 300,000 employees at the agency, it is those very hiring authorities that have caused the DoD to struggle in finding and keeping enough talent in key areas like STEM, acquisition, financial management, cyber, artificial intelligence and foreign language skills.
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