Administration Official Don’t Forget We Also Want to Reward Good Feds

A key Trump administration official said on Wednesday that while the attention from President Trump’s recent civil service executive orders focused on disciplinary measures, the president views as equally important the provisions to better reward top performers. With unemployment numbers so low, competition for talent with the private sector is strong and incentives to recruit and retain employees are more important than ever, Office of Personnel Management Deputy Director Michael Rigas said at a Government Executive event in Washington, D.C. Promoting the administration’s efforts to provide incentives to its best workers such as its proposed $1 billion workforce fund, which lawmakers declined to fill in fiscal 2018 will prove just as important as those aimed at streamlining the federal government’s firing procedures, Rigas said.