Management

Fewer Jobs, Longer Wait Times: The New Postal Service Slogan?

Study anticipates postal workforce will shrink faster than any other employee group during the next eight years.

Pay & Benefits

Senior Execs Press Obama on Alternative to Presidential Rank Awards

Administration canceled honors last year, promising to devise a less expensive way to recognize top federal employees.

Pay & Benefits

Congress Cut Its Own Budget. What Happened Next Will Not Restore Your Faith in Government.

When you cut their budgets and take away their health insurance, many Capitol Hill employees will look to the exits, and that's bad news for anyone who wants to fix Congress.

Pay & Benefits

The Behavioral Economics Behind Americans’ Paltry Nest Eggs

Rewards depend on your penchant for risk.

Nextgov

The Private Companies With the Most Telework Jobs

The FlexJobs' list is based on jobs posted by 25,000 businesses.

Defense

Military Benefits Likely to Remain Sacred to Congress

One in three lawmakers has introduced bills to repeal recent pension cuts.

Management

Union: Don’t Fill Staples Jobs with Non-Postal Employees

Group will organize protests against the use of non-postal workers in pilot program between the office supply store and USPS.

Pay & Benefits

2014 Brings More Changes to Federal Pay and Benefits

OPM widens debt collection window, eases tenure process and expands health benefits to some interns.

Pay & Benefits

OPM: D.C.-Area Feds Should Consider Leaving Office Early to Avoid Frigid Temperatures

Agencies should provide ‘workplace flexibilities’ in response to ‘polar vortex,’ OPM says.

Pay & Benefits

Fewer Retirement Applications Submitted, Processed in December

But OPM expects to receive 20,000 claims in January, causing the backlog to spike.

Pay & Benefits

Pentagon Officially Extends Benefits to Same-Sex Spouses

Defense Department issues interim rule to provide health coverage, other benefits to gay couples.

News

A Wisconsin Divide Over Obamacare Lawsuit

The politics of health care and Hill staff remain complicated.

Nextgov

Why Telework When You Can Take a Snow Day?

Conflicting regulations confuse feds and create disincentives for telework.

Pay & Benefits

TSP Ends 2013 On A Positive Note

All the retirement funds except the F Fund gained in December.

Pay & Benefits

Lawmaker Looks to Postal Service to Restore Military Pension Cut

Bill would reinstate full COLAs to working-age military retirees by ending Saturday mail delivery.

Nextgov

Pentagon Kicks Off Procurement to Maintain Current Health Record Until 2018

Contract will cover sustainment and incremental improvements.

Nextgov

New Year Brings Good News for Technology Pros

"All systems go for tech professionals on the career front."

Management

The Top 7 Federal Stories of the Year

From a government shutdown to a botched health care rollout, 2013 was a year to forget.

Pay & Benefits

Senators Look to Block Budget Deal's Cut to Military Retirement

Cut doesn't begin taking effect until December 2015, giving lawmakers time to seek offsetting cuts elsewhere.

Pay & Benefits

Obama Issues Order Implementing 1 Percent Pay Raise

For the first time since 2010, federal employees will get an across-the-board boost.