Federal Workforce

Good government groups offer counter proposal to personnel office reorganization plans

Federal Times: The Trump administration has drawn intense scrutiny and backlash for its proposals to restructure the Office of Personnel Management and update merit system principles, but a report published July 21 by the Senior Executives Association and Center for Organizational Excellence claims to have found a way to modernize federal personnel management in a way that is “a practical issue, not a political issue.”

“We initiated this study in response to the Trump administration’s faulty proposal to merge the Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration,” said Robert E. Corsi, Jr., interim president of the Senior Executives Association said at a July 28 press event on the report.

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