Effects of Order Being Sorted
Agency, union and congressional officials still are working to sort out the impact of an executive order issued by President …More
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OPM proposed in the Dec. 5 Federal Register rules to carry out a recent presidential order giving spouses of military …More
Changes to NSPS Hiring, Promotions Proposed
DoD has proposed several changes to hiring and promotion procedures under its national security personnel system, generally designed to give …More
Personnel Chiefs Recommend Changes
A survey of top agency personnel officials, chief human capital officers, has found that more than two thirds support dropping …More
Change Affects FEDVIP, FSA Programs
OPM told agencies to notify employees of the opportunity to make belated enrollment changes, and to also accept changes through …More
Belated FEHB Enrollments to Be Accepted
Under pressure from Congress, OPM is allowing agencies to accept belated enrollments in the FEHB program through January, in order …More
Federal Legal Corner: EEOC Finds Retaliation
In Medrano v. Department of Homeland Security, EEOC Appeal No. 0120071480 (September 30, 2008), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) …More
CRS Reports on Burrowing In
The Congressional Research Service has issued a report on the practice of converting political appointees into career positions during a …More
Expert’s View: FEHB Automatic Waivers
Employees weighing an early retirement offer often wonder if they’ll be eligible to continue their FEHB coverage if they haven’t …More
November Another Turkey of a Month for TSP
The stock-oriented TSP funds continued their slide in November, with the small company S fund dropping 11.13 percent, the large …More
Differences Found by Salary, Other Factors
The report found that engagement is higher at higher levels, with SES members the most engaged, supervisors less so and …More
MSPB Finds Levels of Engagement Vary
About a third of federal employees are "fully engaged" in their jobs, another half or somewhat engaged and about 17 …More
Breakdown of Ratings Examined
The CBO report also looked into the distribution of ratings, an issue that employee organizations have raised as part of …More
Pay for Performance System a Key
CBO said that one goal of NSPS is to motivate employees to perform better on the job by emphasizing pay …More
NSPS Called a Work In Progress
DoD’s national security personnel system remains a work in progress, with only limited data available to assess whether it is …More
Winning From Losers
When your stocks lose value, taking capital losses can pay off. You can cut your taxes for the current year …More
Rebalancing Act
Among financial advisors, recommended allocations to emerging markets stocks tend to be modest. You might put 10 percent of your …More
Emerging Markets Meltdown
From late 2002 to late 2007, the MSCI index of emerging markets rose five-fold. Then a slide began, which developed …More
Correction on Last Week’s Expert’s View
The initially posted version of last week’s Expert’s View article misstated the day of the end of the current leave …More
No Word Yet on Extra Day Off
There still has been no word from the White House regarding whether President Bush will grant December 26, a Friday, …More
FSA Enrollment Reminder
During the open season period, employees must sign up for flexible spending accounts if they want to have those accounts …More
FLTCIP May Have Open Season Next Year
Those eligible can join FLTCIP at any time. It has not had an open season since the program began in …More
No Open Season for FEGLI, FLTCIP
With the open season continuing for those programs, note that there are two insurance programs that are not having open …More
Hot Free Info: Open Season Considerations Listed
OPM has compiled an overview of key issues that employees and retirees should be considering during the open season continuing …More
Switch Coming on House Side
On the House side, Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., is leaving that post to take over …More
In Senate, Some Stability, Some Change
The decision of Senate Democrats to allow Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., to keep the chairmanship of the Homeland Security and …More
Pay Order Expected
President Bush is expected to issue by the end of the month an order that will decide how the January …More
Vet Employment Numbers Up Slightly
The percentage of veterans in the federal workforce rose slightly from 2006 to 2007 from 25.4 to 25.5 percent, OPM …More
