Pay & Benefits

More Officials Dock Their Pay in Solidarity With Feds

Lawmakers and Cabinet chiefs announce plans to forfeit or donate portions of their salaries.

Pay & Benefits

Petition Seeks Student Loan Help for Feds

We the People request asks administration to forgive some debt to offset pay freeze.

Pay & Benefits

Obama Gives Up 5 Percent of Salary In Solidarity With Feds

Announcement follows similar gestures by Defense Secretary Hagel and other officials.

Management

In Focus: Where the Federal Workforce Counts

A look at where localities are likely to be hit hardest by sequestration and furloughs.

Pay & Benefits

Furlough Reprieve at Customs and Border Protection?

Agency says it is 'developing a plan' in response to the fiscal 2013 spending measure.

Pay & Benefits

Justice Postpones Furlough Decision to Mid-April

Attorney general is still weighing unpaid leave for employees because of sequestration.

Nextgov

Has the IT Salary Gender Gap Disappeared?

Women earn as much as men for the same job but tend to hold lower positions, survey finds.

Defense

Pentagon Scales Back Furloughs, Calls for Additional Flexibility

Spending deal fixed some but not all the department's sequestration problems, Hagel says.

Defense

Union Asks Pentagon to Cancel 22-Day Furloughs

Defense hopes to scale back unpaid leave with new flexibilities in latest spending deal.

Tech

Energy Dept. Overpays Contractor Executives

Oak Ridge, Tenn., officials sign off on salary that’s 80 percent too high, IG says.

Management

OPM to Senior Execs: Tell Us How You Really Feel

Agency wants honest feedback from top career civil servants who leave their jobs.

Management

Short-Term Flexibility Won't Help Long-Term Impact of Sequestration

Greater control doesn't change the dollars and cents of the equation.

Pay & Benefits

Obama Signs Off On Fed Pay Freeze

Law avoids government shutdown and extends pay freeze for the third straight year.

Pay & Benefits

Furloughs Could Endanger Feds’ Security Clearances

Senator asks OPM to protect employees who risk losing their jobs because sequestration forces them into debt.