Dissatisfaction With Benefits Package Also Shows

The personnel chiefs surveyed by OPM in the parental leave study also expressed dissatisfaction with the way the federal benefits package is structured. OPM said that one agency suggested that the government “needs a leave system that is more easily administered and equitable to all. Another agency suggested that the administration try to streamline and simplify the overlapping and confusing leave programs. Yet another agency suggested that federal benefits programs be restructured to allow ‘cafeteria style’ benefits that the employee could pick and choose from to suit his or her personal situation, rather than add another entitlement to the current system that would be valuable only to a narrowly defined group of employees.”