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Federal, state and local governments are hiring new workers at the fastest pace in six years, helping offset job losses in the private sector.

Linda Springer sees Web 2.0 tools as one key way to beat back the retirement wave agencies are facing.

As Senate leaders yesterday observed Equal Pay Day, the White House threatened to veto a bill that would make it easier for victims of discrimination to sue their employers over unequal pay.

Over Republican objections that an economic slowdown was no time to increase benefits for federal employees, the House Oversight and Government Reform Federal Workforce Subcommittee moved a bill giving federal employees paid parental leave.

Citing a decline in the diversity of senior government executives, the House Oversight and Government Reform Federal Workforce Subcommittee sent a bill to the full committee renewing efforts to increase the hiring of women and minorities.

Making lines of business efforts work is mostly a matter of planning ahead, according to panelists who spoke today at the Interagency Resources Management Conference.

The federal government must hire more people with disabilities to meet its obligation as a model employer, said Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., in a Monday lecture at New York Law School.

The first federal employees covered by a new online annuity calculation system will be able to prepare their own retirement projections by early summer, the Office of Personnel Management said April 9.

There are some unhappy employees at the U.S. Marshals Service.

In an effort to better protect federal networks, the Homeland Security Department expects agencies to provide around-the-clock monitoring of their IT systems, the head of the department said yesterday.