No Mistake on FEGLI Election Delay
In response to questions from federal personnel offices regarding a key provision of the upcoming open season in the Federal …More
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Concerns About Appeal Rights at DHS Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., the ranking Democrat on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, recently …More
TSP Stock Funds Positive
The three Thrift Savings Plan funds tracking stock indexes posted gains in May, with the common stock (C) fund up …More
TSP Open Season Measure Advances
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee has approved a bill (S-2479) to end the twice-yearly open seasons in the Thrift Savings …More
TSP Open Season Measure Advances
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee has approved a bill (S-2479) to end the twice-yearly open seasons in the Thrift Savings …More
Performance Fund Also at Issue
The White House’s budget proposal, in calling for a 1.5 percent general raise, also advocated spending $500 million on performance-based …More
House Likely to Move First on Raise
The next action on the 2005 federal raise likely will occur in the House, which in March passed a non-binding …More
Work on Key Spending Measures Begins
With the House having passed a budget outline for the upcoming fiscal year (S.Con.Res 95)-a Senate vote has been delayed …More
White House Repeats Raise Position
The Bush administration, in a report on managing federal spending, has reiterated its stance against across-the-board federal raises and in …More
Day Off Granted in Reagan’s Memory
Most federal offices will be closed Friday (June 11) and employees given excused absences in memory of former President Reagan, …More
Overtime Policy Change Finalized
Rules published in the May 13 Federal Register finalize a change in overtime policy primarily affecting certain mid-level managers and …More
Closer Look at Student Loan Reimbursements
The OPM report also noted that there remain substantial variations among agencies regarding their use of the authority, with the …More
Student Loan Use Increasing
The Office of Personnel Management has issued its latest report on use of student loan reimbursement authority in federal agencies, …More
What Do I Want to Be?
By John Grobe What do I want to be when I grow up? Who would have thought that we would …More
Some Misconceptions Remain
Contrary to what some federal employees continue to believe, government contributions for FERS employees don’t count against the dollar cap. …More
TSP Open Season Winding Down
The current TSP open season ends June 30, providing the last opportunity this year for investors under the FERS system …More
FEGLI Open Season Coming Up
A rare open season for enrolling in or changing coverage levels in the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance program will …More
Estimates on Reservist Benefits Also Issued
Meanwhile, CBO released cost estimates on several other provisions of the DoD authorization bill under consideration. For example, it said …More
CBO Skeptical about Contracting-In
In a cost estimate that could hamper prospects of getting a “contracting-in” provision enacted in the final version of the …More
Acquisition Workforce Changes Could Lie Ahead
The House-passed version of the fiscal 2005 Defense Department authorization bill (HR-4200) would make several changes in policy for acquisition …More
DoD Signals Fresh Start on Personnel System
In a further signal that the Defense Department is stepping back from its earlier actions to create a new personnel …More
TSP Open Seasons Could Be Ended
Another provision of HR-1601 would end the practice of conducting twice-years open seasons in the Thrift Savings Plan. TSP officials …More
Reform Bill Advances
The House civil service subcommittee has passed legislation (HR-1601) that: boosts the maximum payments for recruiting and retention bonuses from …More
Other Data on Bias Complaints
Other Data on Bias Complaints The EEOC report also contains demographic breakdowns of the federal workforce and data on complaints, …More
EEO Process Remains Slow
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently released its annual report on the state of employment discrimination complaints among federal employees, …More
Pay Parity Provision Dropped
House and Senate conferees on a budget outline for fiscal 2005 (S.Con.Res. 85) dropped a provision that had been in …More
Another Approach on WEP Offered
The head of the House Social Security subcommittee, Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., has offered a plan to provide relief from …More
Administration Threatens Veto
In a policy statement on the Defense Department budget measure, the Office of Management and Budget said the administration opposes …More
Other Contracting Provisions Included
The House measure further expresses the “sense of Congress” that DoD civilian employees “should receive legal standing to challenge a …More
Contracting-Out Policy Also at Issue
The House version of the DoD bill would require a formal comparison of in-house costs versus contractor bids before functions …More
