Budget Takes Aim at Leave, Within-Grade Raises
The Trump administration has released additional documents as a follow-up to last week’s budget proposals for fiscal 2020, making clear …More
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Some Details Added to FEHB, Retirement Proposals
New budget-related documents from the White House spell out in more detail the proposals related to retirement and FEHB contained …More
Frustration Grows along with Wait for Raise, Back Pay
The continued delay in paying out the average 1.9 percent raise enacted into law February 15—and the accompanying delay in …More
Budget Requests Buyout Boost, New Incentives
Among the provisions of the Trump administration’s latest budget proposal that might be viewed as a positive for federal employees …More
Budget Anticipates Job Growth, although Mainly Related to Census
The newly released fuller details of the Trump administration’s budget proposal projects a 4 percent increase in 2020 as measured …More
DoD Projects Growth in STEM, Depot Jobs
DoD has said that the projected increase of more 5,000 civilian jobs in its fiscal 2020 budget plan, would be …More
COLA Count Creeping towards Positive
Through five months of the counting period toward the January 2020 federal retirement COLA, the count stands at -0.1 percent, …More
Trump Again Proposes No Raise, Familiar Benefit-Cutting Proposals
President Trump has called on Congress to provide no federal employee pay raise in January 2020 and to increase the …More
Many Details on Proposals Still Lacking
The White House’s budget proposal, released Monday, was an incomplete version of that annual document, consisting of just a summary …More
Wait for Raise, Back Pay Nears One-Month Mark
Now almost a month since President Trump signed into law an average 1.9 percent federal employee pay raise to be …More
Budget Assumes OPM/GSA Reorg Will Move Ahead
The White House’s budget proposal assumes that a planned breakup of OPM, with most of its parts moving to GSA, …More
Focus on Workforce Plans Continuing, Budget Says
The administration’s budget plan says that focus is continuing on one element of the President’s Management Agenda released last spring, …More
TSP, Treasury Issue Reassurances on G Fund Disinvestment
Both the Treasury Department and the TSP have issued statements saying that a financial maneuver the Treasury recently used regarding …More
Slight Decline in Telework Reported
OPM’s latest annual report on telework, covering fiscal 2017, showed a slight decline in participation from the prior year, adding …More
Wait Continues on Retroactive Raise
The wait continues for specifics of the retroactive average 1.9 percent federal employee pay raise signed into law February 15, …More
