Payroll Agency Addresses Upcoming Social Security Repayment Requirement
The largest federal payroll provider has issued further guidance on the requirement just ahead for many federal employees to repay …More
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DoD Extends Authority to Telework with Dependents in the Home
In what amounts to a sign of an expectation that high numbers of its employees will continue to be teleworking …More
Survey Finds Harassment, Discrimination at FEMA
A consultant’s study has found that 20 percent of FEMA employees say they have experienced a civil rights violation on …More
Race is on to Redesignate Policy Positions Before Inauguration
A showdown over President Trump’s “Schedule F” executive order is shaping up as a race between the administration working to …More
Dispute over Schedule F Order Increases Risk of Shutdown
The dispute over the Trump administration’s “Schedule F” executive order could hold the potential for raising the chances of a …More
In Change of Position, White House Now Supports Federal Pay Freeze
The Trump administration has supported language in a recently released Senate bill that would provide for no pay raise for …More
Concerns Over Political Appointees Burrowing In Heightened
The Trump administration’s order calling on agencies to put policy-related positions into a new excepted service Schedule F has added …More
Level of Veterans in Federal Jobs Remains Steady at Close to 1/3
The percentages of veterans by two separate measures of the federal workforce — as a total headcount and as the …More
Looser TSP Installment Payment Withdrawals Finalized
The TSP has issued final rules effective immediately to carry out a previously announced intention to widen policies regarding one …More
TSP Stock Funds Surge in Nov.; S Fund Up Over 18 Percent
All three stock-based TSP funds posted exceptionally strong gains in November, led by the small company stock S fund, up …More
Federal Workforce a Battleground Amid Transition; Agencies Moving Quickly on Schedule F
The formal start of the presidential transition has underscored the differing priorities for the federal workforce under the outgoing Trump …More
Frontline Federal Employees Look to Vaccine as Infections, FECA Claims Rise
With the recent announcements of several promising vaccines for the Coronavirus, many federal employees in front-line positions have been asking …More
Both USPS Management, Employees Fell Short in Pandemic Response, Says IG
Actions the Postal Service took at the outset of the pandemic “likely saved lives and certainly increased employee safety,” but …More
End Game Still Not Clear on Preventing Shutdown
Congress and the White House are in the familiar position of balancing the opportunity to achieve spending and policy priorities …More
VA “Accountability” Law Violated Employee Protections in Contract, FLRA Rules
In a rare decision of recent times favoring a federal union over agency management in a dispute, the FLRA has …More
Court: Whistleblower Protections Could Extend to Policy Disagreements
A federal court has said that an employee’s disclosures can qualify for whistleblower protections even if they involve matters of …More
Agency Transition Activities to Begin After Nod from GSA
GSA on Monday said it would free up resources for a presidential transition after a lengthy delay and as battleground …More
Groundwork Begins to Reverse Trump Policies, but President Could Issue More
Federal employee organizations are focusing on the potential for a Biden administration to quickly revoke Trump administration policies already issued …More
DoD Cautions on Post-Election Political Activity
The Defense Department has issued a message to its civilian employees and military personnel on post-election political activities that takes …More
As Year-End Approaches, Still No Further Guidance on Repaying Taxes
As the end of the year approaches, neither the IRS nor the federal payroll processors have issued further guidance for …More
Congress Likely to Take Budget Down to the Wire Again
Both chambers of Congress are in session this week but with no budget measure available for voting and another recess …More
TSP Investors Continue Shift to G Fund; New Spillover Rules to Take Effect
For the second straight month as the stock-oriented TSP funds suffered declines in October, investors overall shifted money from those …More
Biden Expected to Overturn Many Trump Policies on Federal Workforce
A Biden administration is widely expected to act on many fronts to overturn Trump administration policies on the federal workforce …More
OPM Targets Removing Ineligible Persons from FEHB
OPM has issued guidance on removing ineligible family members from coverage under the FEHB program, stressing that under its rules, …More
Agency Funding, Pandemic Relief Await Divided Congress
Congress has returned for a post-election session that will have to take up much of the business it has left …More
Senate Measure Backs Pay Freeze, I Fund Limitation
Federal employee pay would be frozen in 2021 under a newly released bill from the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Republican leadership, …More
Increases in Medicare Costs for 2021 Announced
The 2021 Medicare Part B (physicians and related services) premium will be $148.50 a month for most enrollees, an increase …More
Unions Seek Course Reversal on Bargaining, Grievances, Official Time
Federal employee organizations have said they expect relations to improve with a Biden White House compared with those they have …More
Vacancies Available for Biden in MSPB, FLRA, Impasses Panel
A change of administrations provides the White House with opportunities to replace several thousand political appointees—less than half of whom …More
Opponents of ‘Schedule F’ Order Eye Options to Block It
A coalition of federal employee organizations is looking to an upcoming spending bill as potential way to block the Trump …More
