Expanded Sick Leave Usage Proposed
Proposed rules from the Office of Personnel Management would allow federal employees to use up to 12 weeks of sick …More
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Another TSP proposal pending in Congress of broader interest to most employees was conspicuous by its absence from the administration’s …More
Earlier TSP Contributions Backed
The Clinton administration once again is asking Congress to approve legislation to allow newly hired federal employees to begin investing …More
Back Pay Claims Rules Issued
The Office of Personnel Management has issued interim rules to carry out several provisions already in effect under law, including …More
Pilot Disability Program Under Way
The Office of Personnel Management and the Social Security Administration are conducting a test program that could fundamentally change the …More
Order Designed as Model
Although the administration cited no instances in which abuses of genetic information has occurred in the federal employment realm, such …More
Scope of the Genetic Testing Order
The presidential order (see above): prohibits federal agencies from requiring or requesting genetic tests as a condition of being hired …More
Overtime/Travel Suit Bears Watching
The National Treasury Employees Union, in a development that will bear watching by other federal employees who believe they are …More
Shaky Month for C Fund
The Thrift Savings Plan’s common stock (C) fund suffered a losing month in January, dropping 5.03 percent to bring the …More
Rules Coming on Paid Family Leave
The Office of Personnel Management soon will announce rules to allow employees to take up to 12 weeks per year …More
Universal Buyouts, Base Closings, Other Proposals
In proposals made in the past but so far unapproved by Congress, the administration: seeks to reinstate a government-wide buyout …More
NARFE: What About Retirees?
Though the Clinton administrations’ budget would allow active employees to pay health care premiums from pre-tax wages, it does not …More
Several Health Insurance Ideas Offered
The administration also will seek legislation designed to better leverage the purchasing power of the Federal Employees Health Benefits population …More
Paycheck Delay also Targeted
Another budget proposal seeks to undo language passed just last fall delaying the last paycheck of the current fiscal year …More
Relief from Retirement Contributions Hike
The Clinton administration’s new budget would indirectly make federal salaries worth more by seeking to repeal the increases in employee …More
Military, However, May Shield Fed Pay Raise
Meanwhile, though, there’s strong pressure not to set a lower federal pay raise figure. The linkage between military and civilian …More
Military Raise also a Factor
Possibly more important to the prospects for the next federal raise, though, is that military personnel are slated to get …More
Raise Likely Will Hold at 3.7%
While the actual federal pay raise is determined in the congressional budget process and employee organizations will fight as always …More
2001 Pay Raise, Other Budget Items
President Clinton’s fiscal year 2001 budget proposal contains a mixture of new and previously seen ideas for federal employee benefits …More
Veterans’ Preference Crediting Examined
A federal appeals court has ordered a finding on whether military “constructive service” time—time not actually served but credited on …More
