Senate Set to Package, Advance Personnel Changes
Numerous bills affecting federal personnel policies that have passed the Senate committee level could come to a full Senate vote …More
Numerous bills affecting federal personnel policies that have passed the Senate committee level could come to a full Senate vote …More
DoD’s chief information officer has sent out a department-wide memo reinforcing that employees must comply with the Federal Records Act, …More
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is to hold a hearing today (Wednesday) on postal reform, the first serious …More
The Senate postal reform measure (S-2051) has been tweaked in many ways over time but it still would set up …More
Meanwhile, the oversight panel has set a hearing Friday on expanding the scrutiny of social media postings by applicants for …More
Chances have increased that a law will be enacted this year restricting disciplinary appeal rights of all VA employees–which could …More
The Senate bill would affect the appeal rights of employees below the executive ranks who are under the Title 5 …More
The bill also reflects many of the proposals regarding senior executives at the VA, including several recently proposed by the …More
The measure meanwhile emphasizes strengthened protections for whistleblowers against retaliation. It would create an Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection …More
The House Armed Services Committee made only relatively minor changes regarding personnel policies to the annual DoD budget bill in …More
The Armed Services Committee meanwhile accepted language reflecting two bills recently passed by the House, further improving chances of those …More
Every TSP investment fund posted a gain in April, led by the international stock I fund, up 1.89 percent and …More
The House has passed two bills to tighten federal employee disciplinary policies, one focusing on extensive use of paid leave …More
The VA would have to strengthen whistleblower protections for its employees, including by setting up a new office to receive …More
The Senate VA spending measure also would make those who retaliate against whistleblowers subject to mandatory discipline. They would be …More
The issue of the January 2017 federal employee raise, which has been largely dormant for several months, could gain new …More
In recent years Congress has determined a federal raise by not determining one, allowing the White House proposal to take …More
The House Armed Services Committee plans to finish work this week on the annual DoD authorization bill, a measure that …More
Halfway through the counting period for the January 2017 federal retirement COLA, the count stands at -0.9 percent, following an …More
The Obama administration has proposed boosting the maximum buyout payment for federal employees to $40,000, saying that the $25,000 maximum …More
Buyout payments–also called voluntary separation incentive payments (VSIPs), especially in DoD–are used to lure employees to separate, either for retirement …More
The proposal also would provide all federal employees with a new entitlement to six weeks of paid leave each 12 …More
Other government-wide provisions in the DoD proposal would: eliminate the “rule of three”–in which hiring managers must choose from the …More
DoD meanwhile asked Congress to allow it to grant up to six pay periods worth of advance pay for its …More
The House plans to vote this week on several bills targeting the IRS that have implications for its employees including: …More
The CRS report also examined possible changes to FECA, including a long-running proposal to require beneficiaries to switch to disability …More
OPM projects that premiums for most enrollees in the FLTCIP long-term care insurance program will increase in the fall under …More
OPM has not specified how much premiums will increase, nor exactly when. Those and other details could be announced in …More
The last time a contract expired to be replaced by a new one, in 2009, there was substantial controversy that …More
While the overall percentage of employees who save in the TSP is increasing, the average percentage of salary being saved …More