FEGLI Elections Made Last Year About to Take Effect
OPM has told agencies to remind their employees that changes in FEGLI coverage elected in the open season last September …More
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Message on Pay Raise Likely Ahead
President Trump likely will issue a message by the end of this month restating his intent to provide federal employees …More
Decision on Adding Localities Still Pending
Among the issues regarding federal pay still pending is whether new GS localities will be created for 2018, as recommended …More
Who’s Not Eligible for a Buyout
There seems to be a misunderstanding among some federal workers regarding eligibility for buyouts if those incentives are being offered …More
New Per Diem Rates Set, Effective in October
GSA has updated the per diem rates for federal travelers effective October 1, increasing the standard lodging rate for destinations …More
Senate Bill Seeks Boost in Border, Port Staffing
A newly offered Senate bill (S-1757) would increase the number of Border Patrol agents, Custom and Border Protection officers at …More
COLA Count Slips Slightly
The inflation index used to determine the January 2018 federal retiree COLA fell by 0.1 percentage points in July, bringing …More
OSC Praises Bill to Aid Whistleblowers
The Office of Special Counsel has said that Senate passage of S-582, a reauthorization bill for the agency, is a …More
No Decisions Reached on Buyouts, Retirement Cuts, Raise
The Senate has joined the House in recessing without having directly addressed a number of important pocketbook issues for federal …More
Open Season on the Horizon, OPM Reminds Agencies
OPM has sent the first of a series of annual guidance to agencies on the yearly benefits open season, which …More
Per Diem Rate Announcement Likely Coming Soon
GSA likely will soon announce the per diem rates for federal travelers to be effective for the fiscal year starting …More
More Whistleblower Protections Sought
A coalition of good-government and whistleblower advocacy groups is asking Congress and the administration to strengthen federal employee whistleblower protections, …More
ALJ Application Opportunity to Open Soon
OPM has said that it will soon conduct one of the rare opportunities for applying for administrative law judge positions, …More
Many Key Positions Remain Vacant
Around the 200 day mark of the Trump administration, a number of positions important to federal employees remain vacant with …More
Some Improvement Seen in Personnel Records Security
OPM “has improved its security posture and is in the process of taking numerous actions” since disclosures in 2015 that …More
House Opposes Trump on Base Closings, A-76
The House has taken positions opposite to that of the Trump administration on two key federal workforce issues, DoD base …More
House Recesses without Deciding on Proposed Retirement Benefit Cuts
The House has started a recess that will last through Labor Day—and the Senate soon will follow—without holding a floor …More
Senate to Leave Benefits, Buyout Issues on the Table
It’s now unlikely that the Senate will even begin the process of producing a budget blueprint as a companion to …More
Changes to VA Hiring, Pay, Career Development Policies Approved
Congress has sent to President Trump a bill (S-114) making a number of changes in hiring and other VA personnel …More
New TSP Executive Director Named; I Fund Leads in July
The TSP governing board has chosen as the new executive director of the program Ravindra Deo, who has filled that …More
TSP, Official Time Bills Advance
A Senate committee has joined its House counterpart in backing widened TSP withdrawal options, boosting prospects for enactment of a …More
VA, DHS, DoD Account for Most of Job Growth
OPM has published a new statistical breakdown of the federal workforce, showing that as a percentage of the overall American …More
OPM Nominee Reportedly Withdraws
George Nesterczuk, the nominee to head OPM, reportedly has withdrawn from consideration, following opposition from federal employee unions that focused …More
Hits to Retirement Benefits Planned, but Path Uncertain
The future is uncertain for a House committee-passed budget blueprint for the fiscal year that starts in October, a measure …More
House Budget Plan Envisions 10 Percent Job Cut
A report on a budget blueprint for fiscal 2018 passed last week by the House Budget Committee reveals that the …More
Consideration of Raise Set to Advance, Then Stop
The Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to begin work today (Wednesday) on the general government appropriations bill, the key measure …More
Lesson from EPA on Buyouts/Early Outs: Be Prepared
A round of early retirement and buyout offers at the EPA, being watched for the precedent it may set for …More
White House Again Pitches Base Closings; Congress Balks
The White House and the congressional Armed Services Committees have been engaging in a testy exchange–unusually so, given that Republicans …More
No Way to Quantify Value of Job Security, Says CBO
The CBO has said there is no reliable way to quantify a factor often mentioned in the context of comparisons …More
House Bill Would Extend Restrictions on Appeal Rights
A newly offered House bill, HR-3257, would apply government-wide many of the restrictions on employee rights recently enacted for the …More
