Some Agencies Stand to Grow a Little
The budget shows some growth in the federal workforce as measured in full-time equivalent positions, from an estimated 2,106,000 this …More
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A newly introduced bipartisan House bill (HR-4418) would overturn a court ruling that restricted MSPB appeal rights of employees in …More
Budget Proposal Coming Up
President Obama’s last budget proposal is to be released next Tuesday (February 9), a document that likely once again will …More
Raise Issue Could Follow Familiar Path
Employee organizations also have been urging the White House to propose a substantial pay raise, citing the pay rate freeze …More
DoD Could Seek Own Authorities
The budget proposal also could include at least some elements of a proposal the Defense Department raised last summer to …More
Hill Leaders Could Repeat Benefits Proposals, Too
The White House budget proposal kicks off a process of hearings and bill-crafting that begins with the House and Senate …More
TSP Tees Off 2016, Needs Mulligan
All the stock-oriented TSP funds suffered significant losses in January, dragging down the lifestyle L funds with them. The small …More
Confirmation Hearing Set for Cobert
A Senate committee has set a confirmation hearing for tomorrow (February 4) for acting OPM director Beth Cobert to formally …More
More Tightening of Clearance Policies Planned
The administration plans to further tighten conditions on granting security clearances–which are a necessary precondition to hold many federal jobs–as …More
OPM Updates Status of Cyber Breach Services
About 2.4 million people have enrolled in the identity theft protection and credit monitoring services related to the cybertheft of …More
Extended Services Still a Work in Progress
OPM further said it is working to carry out legislation enacted in December requiring that the services for both incidents …More
FEHB Limited Enrollment Period Set to Start
Running the month of February is a special “limited enrollment period” in the FEHB program during which actively employed family …More
Splitting of FEHB Population Again Considered
Backers of a plan to revamp many aspects of Postal Service operations have said chances of passing those long-stalled reforms …More
OPM Loosens Reins on Incentive Payments
OPM has loosened the controls on the so-called “3Rs” of incentive payments–recruitment, retention and relocation incentives–which were capped at 2010 …More
Involve Employees More in Performance Evaluations, Agencies Told
OPM in another memo has told agencies that they should better engage the employees who are being rated in the …More
Fuller Communications between Employees and Supervisors Stressed
The memo said that the key to improved performance evaluations is for supervisors to engage employees “all stages and aspects” …More
Check Those Next Pay Statements
Federal employees will want to take a close look at their next pay and leave statements. The average 1.3 percent …More
Some Special TSP Considerations Apply
Employees under the FERS system might need to doublecheck that their TSP investment rates are structured to their best benefit, …More
Reminder on ‘Catch-Up’ Investments
While regular TSP investments carry over from year to year unless changed, a new election must be made for those …More
Probationary, Other Policies Targeted
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has advanced a package of bills focusing on several long-running disputes over federal …More
Restrictions on SES Would Widen
The panel further approved one of many bills (HR-4358) targeting SES personnel practices arising in light of scandals involving SES …More
Some Other Personnel Changes Advance
Also approved by the panel was HR-4360, to require that an agency record any adverse findings from a resolved investigation …More
Survey Coming on Agency Personnel Practices
Some 120,000 federal employees are being sent a survey from the MSPB on their views of how well their agencies …More
GSA Plans Tweak in Per Diem Reimbursement
GSA has proposed to include ATM charges in as part of the meals and incidental expenses portion of per diem …More
FEHB Change Finalized, FEGLI Change Proposed
OPM has sent guidance to agencies on a policy under which federal employees will be protected from inadvertently losing FEHB …More
Beefed Up Clearance Reinvestigations Ordered
Federal employees with security clearances would be subject to more frequent and more thorough reinvestigations for continued eligibility to hold …More
TSP Funds Produce Mixed Results for 2015
In an up and down year for stock markets, the ever-steady government securities G fund led TSP funds in returns …More
Reminder on 2016 Federal Pay Increases
Most federal employees work under a pay cycle whose ending date for the current biweekly period will be Saturday (January …More
Note Impact on TSP Investments
Employees may invest in the TSP by percentage of salary or by dollar amount per pay period. Regular investments continue …More
Other Special TSP Considerations Apply in FERS
Employees under the FERS system might need to doublecheck that their TSP investment rates are structured to their best benefit. …More
