Pick to Lead Federal HR Office Faces Tough Questions in Senate

The woman nominated to lead the federal government’s chief HR office told a Senate committee May 7 that employee morale during her time as chief of the Federal Labor Relations Authority dipped because she tried to make the agency more efficient.

The FLRA was inefficient, with “siloed” components that didn’t communicate well with each other when she became the agency’s chair, Dale Cabaniss told Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) during a hearing held by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “I made changes necessary to make the agency function as one,” she said. The changes “weren’t necessarily popular” with ...