Excused Absence for Voting Reminder
With the primary season heating up, including Super Tuesday on March 3, federal employees and managers need to be aware …More
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IRS to Send More Agents to Delinquent, High Income Households
The IRS has said it will increase personal visits by its enforcement personnel to the homes of people delinquent on …More
Cancelling a Job Opening Could Be Reprisal, Court Says
Management’s decision not to fill a vacancy it had posted and for which a whistleblowing employee had applied could be …More
Administration Seeks New Performance Carrots and Sticks
The Trump administration has said wants a mix of new incentives and disincentives regarding job performance for federal employees, all …More
Two Approaches Offered for Plugging Paid Parental Leave Gap, Including Bipartisan Bill
Civil service leaders in the House and the Trump administration are both moving to plug the gaps in the upcoming …More
OPM Wants to Offer New Benefits: Disability Insurance, Legal Plans, Childcare, Accident Insurance
OPM is seeking authority from Congress to offer federal employees what it calls “voluntary benefits” such as short-term disability insurance, …More
MSPB Pleads for Funding Ahead of Expected Workload Surge
The MSPB has sent to Congress an unusual “bypass request,” seeking more money for fiscal 2021 than the White House’s …More
TSP Proposes 5 Percent Default Enrollment, Changes in Hardship Withdrawals
The TSP has proposed to make certain expenses related to a natural disaster automatically eligible for in-service “financial hardship” withdrawals, …More
COLA Count Stands at 0.5 Percent
The count toward the January 2021 federal retirement COLA stands at 0.5 percent through four months of the counting period, …More
Irregular Work Schedules Wearing Down Air Marshals
Federal air marshals are experiencing health and personal problems related to their irregular work schedules, a long-running concern aggravated by …More
Trump Offers 1 Percent Raise, Seeks Benefit Cuts
Under the Trump administration’s new budget proposal, federal employees would receive a 1 percent pay raise in January and agencies …More
Budget Again Proposes to Hike FERS Contributions, Axe Supplement
The administration’s fiscal 2021 budget proposal includes a set of oft-repeated proposals regarding employee contributions toward retirement, retirement benefits, premium …More
Paid Time Off Instead of Sick, Annual Leave Again Proposed
The administration’s budget repeats prior proposals to combine annual leave and sick leave into “paid time off” while not going …More
Budget Keeps OPM Breakup Idea on the Table
The administration’s budget plan assumes that the proposal to break up OPM will become reality in the budget year that …More
Job Gains and Losses Under Proposed 2021 Budget
Job levels at federal agencies would remain about flat overall under the Trump administration budget, although the figures are complicated …More