The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and National Science Foundation (NSF) will grant “mass deferment” for CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) graduates seeking job placements as the government shutdown continues. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said Wednesday that hiring committees spearheaded by Trump administration political appointees must in be place within the next two weeks to oversee hiring processes for federal civilian agencies. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will soon launch several initiatives to bring more technology expertise into the federal government and centralize hiring for roles that have broader responsibilities across agencies, OPM Director Scott Kupor said Monday. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) – the federal government’s central human resources (HR) agency – announced on Monday that it plans to launch a new, single governmentwide human capital management (HCM) system. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) underspent its budget in fiscal year (FY) 2025 by about $38 million in appropriated funds and decided to invest $12 million of the excess funding in its technology development fund, OPM Director Scott Kupor announced today. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) rolled out OpenAI’s ChatGPT to its employees this week, an OPM spokesperson told MeriTalk. […]
With the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on track to lose one-third of its workforce by the end of the year, OPM Director Scott Kupor said on Tuesday that he’s looking to technology to help steady the agency during its ongoing restructuring. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released official guidance on July 29 for agencies to follow as they implement President Donald Trump’s July 17 executive order that created a new Schedule G for Federal employees – including requirements for review by the White House of any appointments under the new schedule. […]
The Senate voted late Wednesday to confirm the nomination of Scott Kupor to become director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) where he will play a big role in the Trump administration’s plans to further reorganize and downsize many Federal government agencies. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on July 1 announced plans to modernize its FedScope platform which serves as a resource for accessing data about the Federal workforce, and released some new – though now out of date compared to other sources – data on the size and composition of the Federal workforce as of March 2025. […]
While the Trump administration has largely ended remote work for many Federal employees, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is urging the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to issue new guidance for agencies that are offering remote work. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a governmentwide hiring plan on Thursday that instructs agencies to hire employees more quickly, focusing on early career and STEM talent. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has canceled its solicitation for a new cloud-based human capital management system. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will kick off a public proceeding later this week aimed at implementing the reclassification of an estimated 50,000 Federal government employees deemed to be in “policy making” positions into a new ‘Policy/Career’ personnel schedule. […]
Scott Kupor, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and Eric Ueland, the nominee for deputy director for management (DDM) at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), both told lawmakers today that, if confirmed, each will make data privacy a priority. […]
A prominent Federal program aimed at bringing young professionals into the government has seen a 64 percent decrease in hires, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which says the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) should do more to improve the talent pipeline. […]
President Donald Trump sent a March 20 memorandum to Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Acting Director Charles Ezell that delegates authority to OPM – the Federal government’s human resources (HR) agency – to fire Federal workers who have cleared their probationary employee status. […]
A Federal judge in San Francisco issued an order from the bench today demanding the reinstatement of all probationary employees who were fired at six Federal agencies based on directives from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). […]
Charles Ezell, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), refused to testify before a Federal judge in a case determining OPM’s involvement in the firing of Federal probationary employees. […]
The inspector general (IG) of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said his office is taking a look into the impact that the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is having on cybersecurity and data privacy practices at OPM. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) sent an email to all of its civilian employees today asking them to list five things they accomplished last week, an official at the DoD confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is instructing Federal agencies to consider reclassifying “career reserved” Senior Executive Service (SES) positions as “general,” giving them until March 24 to review and revise a list of SES positions. […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) told most civilian Federal agencies today to get their Agency RIF and Reorganization Plans (ARRFs) wrapped up by March 13, and instructed that those plans should feature a “significant reduction” in full-time employees achieved by eliminating positions “that are not required.” […]
Five Federal employee unions filed a lawsuit on Feb. 13 challenging President Donald Trump’s Feb. 11 executive order (EO) calling for “large scale” reductions-in-force (RIF) and the administration’s “deferred resignation” program. […]
About 75,000 Federal employees have accepted the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” offer, a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Feb. 6 issued a call to government agencies to provide data to OPM by March 7 on current agency employee performance management plans and policies that will inform new rules about getting rid of underperforming workers, and further President Donald Trump’s aim to reshape the Federal workforce. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is claiming that its email system used to contact all Federal government employees does not pose a privacy risk, according to a Wednesday court filing. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued additional guidance to Federal agencies on Wednesday regarding President Donald Trump’s recent executive order aimed at slashing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) programs. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is advising Federal agencies to move forward with their plans to return to in-person work, despite current telework-related contracts with Federal employee unions. […]
Trump administration officials have directed senior staff members at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to make plans to cut 70 percent of the agency’s workforce. […]