Pay & Benefits
TRICARE Fertility Care
A provision in a Senate bill would expand health care coverage for certain military personnel unable to conceive children.
Oversight
Congress to White House: What’s the sequestration plan?
House overwhelmingly passes bill requiring Obama to detail across-the-board budget cuts.
Pay & Benefits
Labor-management council reviews employee performance measures
Members also mull agency efforts to deepen consultation before major decisions.
Tech
GSA chief speaks on employee morale, agency flaws
Tangherlini asks IT contractors for help with modernizing.
Defense
Sequestration will cost 2.14 million jobs, study says
Automatic cuts would slash hundreds of thousands of federal positions, report finds.
Pay & Benefits
GSA suspends hiring, drastically scales back executive bonuses
Agency also eliminates awards program that offered iPods and other high-end prizes.
Pay & Benefits
Part-time firefighters now eligible for health care
Government expedites rule-making process.
Management
Clinton sets secretary of State travel record
The diplomat has traveled to more countries than any previous secretary.
Management
State still short on Foreign Service workers, GAO finds
Agency has yet to fill employment voids auditors identified in 2008.
Pay & Benefits
Appeals court puts end to Forest Service’s random drug testing
Court rules agency cannot randomly check workers in training program.
Pay & Benefits
House Democrats push health benefits for feds’ same-sex spouses
Lawmakers file friend-of-the-court brief in DOMA case.
Pay & Benefits
Buyout Considerations
Factors to weigh in deciding whether to accept an offer to retire early.
Pay & Benefits
Service members weigh in on pay versus benefits
Survey finds compensation preferences vary among the ranks.
Pay & Benefits
Navy rejects benefits for laid-off sailors
Congressman’s plea to delay layoffs for 172 sailors nearing retirement benefit-eligibility is turned down.
Pay & Benefits
Women a minority in six-figure government jobs
Women hold 42 percent of Washington positions paying more than $100,000.
Pay & Benefits
Is Telework Good For Your Health?
Tell us whether working outside the office allows you to adopt a more wholesome lifestyle.
Management
OMB plans for automatic cuts, urges Congress to find sequestration alternative
The cuts ‘would be terrible for our country,’ Jeff Zients says.
Pay & Benefits
Firefighters win health care benefits
President Obama orders agencies to extend health insurance to part-time workers who battle wildfires.
Pay & Benefits
White House takes appropriators to task on pay, TRICARE
Obama threatens to veto yet another spending bill that omits a civilian pay raise.
Pay & Benefits