Senators Send Go-Slow Signal on Agency Reorganizations
A bipartisan group of a dozen senators has sent what amounts to an assertion of congressional prerogative over potential reorganizations …More
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BRAC-Like Process Envisioned for VA
Legislation (HR-5674) approved by the House Veterans Affairs Committee would create for the VA a process similar to the base …More
VA Employees Losing Their Chance to Improve, Union Says
One effect of the shortened disciplinary process at the VA is to cost many employees a chance to improve their …More
Trump Lauds Federal Workforce, Touts Management Agenda
President Trump’s proclamation on Public Service Recognition Week, which is this week, praises federal employees for their “hard work and …More
Leave Policy Changes Reminder
Recently issued rules on “weather and safety leave” taking effect tomorrow (May 10) revise policies on some, but not all, …More
OPM to Push Employment Policy Shakeup
The Trump administration will advance its agenda on federal employment policies by using powers within its discretion in addition to …More
GOP Lawmakers Propose Familiar Benefits Cuts Ahead of Budget
A group representing the majority of House Republicans has offered a budget plan containing a number of often-proposed changes to …More
Defense Bill Could Ease Hiring of Retired Military, Other Policies
The annual DoD authorization bill being drafted in the House would largely reverse a 2016 policy change that restricted the …More
OPM Finalizes Policies Seeking to Expand FEHB Choices
OPM has finalized rules to address what it calls an “asymmetry” in FEHB policies by allowing all plans to offer …More
Sens. Back Relief for Feds from Big Relocation Tax Hit
Two senators have asked GSA to address what is being called an unintended consequence of the late-2017 tax policy changes …More
All but One of TSP Funds Post Gains in April
All TSP funds except the bond F fund posted gains in April, led by the international stock I fund, up …More
Population Growth Outpacing Federal Workforce
The number of non-seasonal, full-time permanent federal employee positions rose slightly in fiscal 2017 but decreased as a percentage of …More
Performance Pay Fund Pitched, but Details Still Lacking
The Trump administration has again proposed to not raise federal employe pay in January, while setting up a $1 billion government-wide …More
Pon: Big Decisions Lie Ahead on Federal Employee Benefits, Other Policies
OPM director Jeff Pon has moved to raise the profile of the Chief Human Capital Officers Council in preparation for …More
Key Bill Affecting Personnel Policies Starts to Move
The House is set to start writing later this week the annual DoD authorization bill, which sets personnel policies for …More
Whistleblowers Benefit from Wider Choice of Appeals, Report Says
Allowing federal employees who lose whistleblower retaliation cases at the MSPB a choice of federal courts for their appeals has …More
OPM Seeks to Make Transfers among Agencies ‘Seamless’
Federal employees would be able to “seamlessly” transfer among agencies, under a plan OPM has released for carrying out its …More
OPM Issues Reminder on Violence Policies
OPM has issued a reminder to federal agencies and employees regarding the government’s policies and resources related to sexual assault …More
Guidance Issued on Phaseout of myRA Program
Federal agencies should no longer accept new enrollments from their employees in the myRA program, an Obama administration-created retirement savings …More
New Document Spells Our Carrot-and-Stick Approach to Workplace Policy
A new document on strategies for carrying out the recently announced President’s Management Agenda expands on themes the Trump administration …More
More Automation of Work, ‘Reskilling’ of Employees Envisioned
Among the initiatives in the Trump administration’s new strategic plan to carry out its President’s Management Agenda provisions on federal …More
New GS Pay Localities, Expansions in the Pipeline
Proposals, some of them dating back several years, to add new GS localities remain in progress, with implementing rules now …More
Organizations Press for Agency Employment Boosts
Organizations representing federal employees are using the recent budget measure that loosened the fiscal purse strings for many agencies to …More
Guidance Sent on Career-Conditional Status Change
OPM has sent guidance to agencies on a 2016 change in law regarding the transition between career-conditional and career status, …More
GAO Raises New Concerns on DoD Base Closings
GAO has issued the latest in a series of reports raising concerns about how the department handled the most recent …More
Federal Employee Shortfall on Pay Narrows a Little
The federal-private sector pay gap has narrowed a little, with federal employees now behind by an average of 31.86 percent, …More
Viewpoint Survey Coming Soon, Differing for Some
This year’s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey will be sent out soon, OPM has said, with some employees receiving a new …More
Average Federal Retirement Age Continues to Increase
Federal employees are continuing to retire at ever later-stages of their careers, with the average age at standard voluntary federal …More
Report Documents Shift from CSRS to FERS in Workforce
A Congressional Research Service report on federal retirement trends underscores the continuing shift in the federal workforce from CSRS to …More
Big Tax Hit to Some Feds Due to Policy Change
Tax policy changes enacted late last year have had the unintended impact of penalizing many federal employees who receive relocation …More
