FederalDaily - April 20, 2007
NRC Ranked Best Large Federal Agency by Employees
For the second time, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was named the best place to work among
large federal government agencies in a study that ranked employee satisfaction at more than 280 federal
organizations. On April 19, the Partnership for Public Service and American University's Institute
for the Study of Public Policy Implementation released their 2007 Best Places to Work in the Federal
Government rankings. NRC topped all large agencies with a score of 76.2, which was slightly improved
from its previous score of 74.8, which led all agencies in 2005, the last time the study was done.
At the bottom of the large agencies list were the Department of Education (28), the Department of Homeland
Security (29) and the Small Business Administration (30). The Department of Education score was down
from 2005 and survey responses were a bit of a surprise. While employees were happy with the pay, they
rated Education Department management as bad and found there was little sense of agency teamwork. At
the Department of Homeland Security, employees said the pay was bad, leadership was absent and there
was little sense of a family-friendly culture. To see more, go to: http://bestplacestowork.org/BPTW/rankings/agency.php?code=HS00&q=scores_large
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NTEU: IRS Officials ‘Disingenuous’ Over Agency Hiring, Budget
The leader of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) says IRS and Treasury Department officials
were being “disingenuous” when they told Congress that the agency was hiring all the enforcement
agents it was capable of. NTEU President Colleen Kelley said April 19 that she took exception to testimony
given by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. and IRS Commissioner Mark Everson before the Senate Finance
Committee. They said the IRS is hiring as many Revenue Agents as it can and that IRS budget requests
have not been met by Congress. The idea that the small increases envisioned by the (Fiscal Year) 2008
budget are all the agency can handle is disingenuous, Kelley said. The IRS budget request for FY 2007
was $10.592 billion, but Congress gave the IRS more, $10.597 billion, for FY 2007. Even with the increased
funding, enforcement staffing at the IRS is down significantly when compared with levels in the mid-1990s,
she pointed out. To see more, go to: www.nteu.org
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California Census Office Opens, Part of 2008 Dress Rehearsal
The opening of a local Census Office in Stockton, Calif., marks the beginning of the 2008 Census “dress
rehearsal” as the Census Bureau prepares for the 2010 nationwide count. The bureau will hire
2,000 part-time employees to work out of the office that will serve as the home base for conducting
the 2008 dress rehearsal and population count in San Joaquin County, Census officials said April 18.
The local office in Stockton will hire hundreds of local residents in the next few months to update
address lists. As dress rehearsal activities progress, the Census Bureau will hire hundreds of additional
part-time workers to interview residents who do not mail back their census questionnaires. San Joaquin
County is one of two locations in the nation to host a dress rehearsal—which serves as an important
dry run of the nationwide population count. A nine-county area surrounding Fayetteville, N.C., was
selected as the other rehearsal site, officials said. To see more, go to: www.census.gov
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