All posts by Tamar Wilner

About Tamar Wilner

Tamar Wilner is a Dallas-based journalist and researcher who writes about public policy and the media. She's written extensively on energy, the environment, urban planning and small business for trade publications in the US and UK, and contributes regularly to the Columbia Journalism Review. Find her at @tamarwilner.

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  US whistleblower agency lacks proper system for internal complaints, report finds

  The US agency that addresses claims of unfair personnel practices and protects whistleblowers across the federal workforce lacks a fully independent system for handling its own employees’ grievances about HR

  • Posted July 25, 2018
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  “A terrible idea, for so many reasons”: civil servants react to Trump’s reform plans

  The US president has set out a series of organisational changes, including the break-up of the Office of Personnel Management – the federal HR policy and services agency. Tamar Wilner

  • Posted July 13, 2018
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  The looming squeeze on America’s civil servants

  Pushing forward a set of changes to remuneration, working practices and conditions, the Trump administration looks determined to shake up the federal civil service. Tamar Wilner identifies the key battles

  • Posted June 15, 2018
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  US Postal Service censured for forcing out disabled staff

  Officials at the US Postal Service (USPS) deliberately fostered a hostile working environment as the agency tried to force out tens of thousands of staff injured on the job, the

  • Posted April 30, 2018
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  US agencies’ ‘save to spend’ IT freedoms hit budget deadlock

  The US White House has released guidance for agencies on how they can raise funds under the Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act, though parts of the timeline are uncertain due

  • Posted March 12, 2018
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  White House calls for pay freeze and benefits cuts

  US federal employee organisations have sounded the alarm over a pay freeze and other provisions set out this week in the White House’s 2019 budget recommendation, warning that implementing the

  • Posted February 15, 2018
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  Trump appoints his first federal CIO

  US president Donald Trump has announced plans to appoint Ernst & Young principal Suzette Kent as the nation’s next chief information officer (CIO), the first permanent holder of that title

  • Posted February 7, 2018
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  US agencies exhibit poor IT oversight, auditors find

  Twenty-one of 22 US federal agencies studied breached official guidance by failing to identify $4.5bn (€3.6bn) worth of information technology contracts – almost a quarter of their total IT obligations

  • Posted February 5, 2018
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  US officials’ shut-down pay bill passed amidst confused signals

  Last week’s bill ending the US government shut-down has confirmed that federal civil servants will be paid for the three-day ‘furlough’ of 20-22 January – but hopes that officials would

  • Posted January 28, 2018
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  Citizenship question threatens US census, says former programme chief

  A former US census chief has warned that plans to include a question about people’s citizenship in the country’s 2020 national census is likely to depress response rates, damaging the

  • Posted January 16, 2018
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