House Bill Would Sweeten Several VA Employee Benefits
A bill (HR-5674) up for a House vote this week seeks to improve several benefits for VA employees in response …More
A bill (HR-5674) up for a House vote this week seeks to improve several benefits for VA employees in response …More
Federal agencies must make fuller use of their authority to recruit and non-competitively hire spouses of military personnel into term, …More
The MSPB has changed a policy on how such cases are handled, due to its lack of a quorum in …More
Around the third anniversary of the disclosure that two OPM databases containing personal information on millions of current and former …More
In EEO complaints filed by federal employees, the reason cited most frequently is reprisal/retaliation, followed by age discrimination and physical …More
OPM has estimated that the savings to the government–and thus the cost to employees and retirees– of the Trump administration’s …More
An OPM message to Congress containing proposed bill language on the Trump administration’s proposals on federal pay and benefits represents …More
A bipartisan group of a dozen senators has sent what amounts to an assertion of congressional prerogative over potential reorganizations …More
Legislation (HR-5674) approved by the House Veterans Affairs Committee would create for the VA a process similar to the base …More
One effect of the shortened disciplinary process at the VA is to cost many employees a chance to improve their …More
President Trump’s proclamation on Public Service Recognition Week, which is this week, praises federal employees for their “hard work and …More
Recently issued rules on “weather and safety leave” taking effect tomorrow (May 10) revise policies on some, but not all, …More
The Trump administration will advance its agenda on federal employment policies by using powers within its discretion in addition to …More
A group representing the majority of House Republicans has offered a budget plan containing a number of often-proposed changes to …More
The annual DoD authorization bill being drafted in the House would largely reverse a 2016 policy change that restricted the …More
OPM has finalized rules to address what it calls an “asymmetry” in FEHB policies by allowing all plans to offer …More
Two senators have asked GSA to address what is being called an unintended consequence of the late-2017 tax policy changes …More
All TSP funds except the bond F fund posted gains in April, led by the international stock I fund, up …More
The number of non-seasonal, full-time permanent federal employee positions rose slightly in fiscal 2017 but decreased as a percentage of …More
The Trump administration has again proposed to not raise federal employe pay in January, while setting up a $1 billion government-wide …More
OPM director Jeff Pon has moved to raise the profile of the Chief Human Capital Officers Council in preparation for …More
The House is set to start writing later this week the annual DoD authorization bill, which sets personnel policies for …More
Allowing federal employees who lose whistleblower retaliation cases at the MSPB a choice of federal courts for their appeals has …More
Federal employees would be able to “seamlessly” transfer among agencies, under a plan OPM has released for carrying out its …More
OPM has issued a reminder to federal agencies and employees regarding the government’s policies and resources related to sexual assault …More
Federal agencies should no longer accept new enrollments from their employees in the myRA program, an Obama administration-created retirement savings …More
A new document on strategies for carrying out the recently announced President’s Management Agenda expands on themes the Trump administration …More
Among the initiatives in the Trump administration’s new strategic plan to carry out its President’s Management Agenda provisions on federal …More
Proposals, some of them dating back several years, to add new GS localities remain in progress, with implementing rules now …More
Halfway through the count toward the January 2019 federal retirement COLA, the count stands at 1.6 percent, following an increase …More