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Tech Unemployment Falls to 2.7 Percent
But IT professionals aren't quitting their jobs just yet.
Pay & Benefits
Uncle Sam Will Ask Feds About Pay, Job Satisfaction This Spring
OPM will administer its annual survey of the government workforce beginning in late April.
Pay & Benefits
Charities Will Now Have to Pay a Fee to Participate in the Annual Federal Giving Drive
Combined Federal Campaign overhaul will take effect in 2016.
Management
Feds and Their Managers Aren’t Seeing Eye-to-Eye on Much, Including Promotions
Report shows large workforce assessment disparities between supervisors and their staffs.
Pay & Benefits
Uncle Sam Has Shrunk the Gender Pay Gap Over the Past 20 Years
Federal women in 2012 earned 87 cents for every dollar a man earned – 17 cents more than in 1992.
Pay & Benefits
Why Do Washington's Women Leaders Make Less?
What National Journal's 2014 salary survey says about the pay gap.
Pay & Benefits
House Votes to Increase Feds’ Pension Contributions
The Republican fiscal 2015 budget resolution includes several provisions affecting the government workforce.
Pay & Benefits
Obese Feds Can Now Have Their Diet Pills Covered
OPM also wants to make it easier to receive bypass, lap band surgeries.
Oversight
House Panel: No Pay Raises for Congress in 2015
Appropriations committee rejects a bid to grant lawmakers a per diem for living expenses.
Pay & Benefits
Student Loan Perk Doesn’t Benefit Most Federal Employees
Republicans want to eliminate a $70 million incentive to reduce overall spending.
Management
Obama Wants Federal Contractors to Pay Men and Women Equally
President will sign two executive orders Tuesday to prevent pay discrimination.
Nextgov
Former NASA Web Manager Is Crowdfunding Her Discrimination Suit Against the Agency
Gov2.0 pro launches Indiegogo campaign to pay for suit alleging age bias.
Pay & Benefits
Retirement Backlog Fell in March, But It’s Still Higher Than It Was 3 Months Ago
OPM still has nearly 6,000 more applications to process now than it did in December 2013.
Pay & Benefits
Boehner: Make It Easier to Fire VA Execs
House speaker gets behind a GOP effort to hold managers more accountable for their job performance.
Pay & Benefits
Your Mass Transit Benefits Could Soon Double
Legislative provision bringing benefits back to their 2013 levels would apply retroactively to Jan. 1.
Oversight
Analysis: Want Effective Government? Then You Have to Pay Better
Civil servants face a brain drain if Congress persists with pay freezes, benefit cuts, and badmouthing dedicated employees.
Pay & Benefits
House Panel Approves Plan to Increase Feds’ Pension Contributions
Republican fiscal 2015 budget resolution would require feds to contribute up to 5.5 percentage points more to their retirement benefit.
Oversight
Civil Service Reform Might Not Be a Pipe Dream
Political climate is favorable for acting on proposed changes, observers say.
Pay & Benefits