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As agencies hire a new crop of federal employees, they need to understand generational differences and avoid stereotyping younger co-workers, said speakers Monday at the 2008 Government Performance Summit in Arlington, Va.

RetireEZ is up and running.

Gil Harris sees a lot of new security screeners start jobs at Buffalo-Niagara International Airport — and he sees a lot of them quit.

Two high-ranking senators want to know when agencies will fully implement the Bush administration’s requirements to protect personally identifiable data.

Since the beginning of the decade, federal human resources watchers have been predicting a tsunami of baby boomer retirements .... Instead, the numbers from OPM have revealed, year after year, a steady and manageable retirement rate across the federal government.

When the Bush administration and a Republican-led Congress set up the new federal merit pay system about five years ago, it was the leading contender for government reform efforts Best in Show award.

More than 80 percent of the 3,400 acquisition employees who quit in fiscal 2006 were not yet eligible to retire, and officials want to know why they left.

With thousands of wounded soldiers coming back from war each year, the Defense Department needs its doctors, nurses and other medical personnel more than ever.

The Defense Department will be ready soon with plans to reform its security clearance processes, a department official said.

As agencies face a wave of retirements and the resulting loss of valuable workforce skills, they must take measures to ensure a sufficient pipeline of new hires in mission-critical positions — especially at the entry level, according to a new study by the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB).