All posts tagged "Federal Government"
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From digital twins to AI financial forecasting: staff ideas longlisted in Canada’s Public Service Data and AI ChallengeEight projects have been longlisted in Canada’s latest Public Service Data/AI Challenge, which gathers data-related ideas from the federal government workforce and develops the best ones towards implementation. The longlisted ideas
- Posted March 12, 2025
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US federal government to appoint officials to 10-year ‘temporary’ jobsThe Biden administration is to press ahead with plans to allow the US federal government to appoint temporary officials for periods of up to a decade. This would more than
- Posted December 5, 2022
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‘If we’re not representative, why would people trust us?’: GGF’s latest Leading Questions podcast with Canada’s recently retired head of public service accessibility, Yazmine LarocheGlobal Government Forum’s new podcast is out, featuring Yazmine Laroche who retired from the Canadian Public Service after three decades in a wide variety of roles – latterly as deputy
- Posted September 2, 2022
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US government publishes metrics for workforce reforms – and names officials responsible for themThe Biden administration has updated its management agenda to incorporate metrics that aim to improve agency performance, employee engagement, and citizen experience – and has named a host of senior
- Posted April 13, 2022
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‘Increase cooperation between all levels of government’: legislation seeks to update 50-year-old rules on US federal-state cooperationRules governing elements of the relationship between US federal and state and local governments could be modernised under legislation progressing in the Senate. Lawmakers introduced a bill last week with
- Posted April 1, 2022
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OPM grants US federal officials paid leave to vote in electionsThe US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has given federal employees the right to take leave to vote in federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial elections. Agency workers may take
- Posted March 27, 2022
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Biden pledges to ‘address use of salary history’ in setting federal government pay ratesPresident Joe Biden has pledged to tackle the use of previous pay rates for setting salaries for federal government jobs – but has stopped short of saying the practice will
- Posted March 21, 2022
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More US federal officials to return to the office as Biden expands in-person servicesUS president Joe Biden has set out his administration’s plan for federal employees to return to workplaces as part of an effort to widen the number of in-person public services
- Posted March 7, 2022
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Judge blocks COVID-19 vaccine mandate for US government employeesA federal court has issued an injunction against the Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccine mandate for federal workers, pausing a programme that required staff to be fully vaccinated or face discipline.
- Posted January 24, 2022
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Boss class: Why are frontline staff more confident in US federal leadership than the top officials themselves?Global Government Forum and PA Consulting’s Responsive Government Survey examined the views of civil servants from nine countries on how responsive their government was to the changing demands and pressures
- Posted January 6, 2022
