Pay & Benefits
Agriculture offers another round of buyouts
Nearly 2,000 Rural Development employees will have the option of leaving, for payments of $25,000.
Oversight
Super committee gets mixed messages on USPS
Recommendations range from “please save” the Postal Service to “stay out.”
Oversight
IG council honors star performers
14th annual awards ceremony highlights crime-fighting, exposure of waste and fraud.
Defense
Agencies propose privacy training in wake of TRICARE data theft
Draft rule requiring all contractors to brush up on handling sensitive information in many cases codifies policies already in place.
Defense
Flooded Walter Reed clinics to reopen Friday
Patients scheduled for treatment in the damaged clinics were relocated during the cleanup.
Pay & Benefits
TSP participants look for safe investment choices
After several tough months, funds appear to be bouncing back as enrollees weather the storm.
Pay & Benefits
Postal workers hire former Obama 'car czar'
Union argues cuts aren't enough to resolve the agency's financial problems and is considering proposals to tap new sources of revenue.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers push extended pay freeze, increased pension contributions
Recommendations to super committee call for additional sacrifices from feds.
Oversight
Homeland Security cracks down on workers’ outside employment
Proposed rules would require employees to get permission before agreeing to outside work including teaching, speaking and consulting.
Oversight
Senior execs get more help starting off on the right foot
Pilot program tempers the expectation that new SES members should walk in the door knowing everything.
Defense
Bill caps Veterans Affairs bonuses
House approves legislation that limits the amount the department can pay in performance awards to senior staff.
Pay & Benefits
Refreshing COLA
The lowdown on the first cost-of-living adjustment in retirement benefits in two years.
Pay & Benefits
Use annual leave or lose it, OPM says
Employees -- and retirees leaving federal service in early January -- must schedule excess vacation by Nov. 19.
Pay & Benefits
GAO: No refund for USPS overpayment to retirement account
A reported $75 billion in excess funds was within the parameters of the law, report finds.
Pay & Benefits
Workers’ Compensation Woes
Benefits for employees hurt on the job need an upgrade, but nothing is changing -- yet.
Pay & Benefits
Cut Congress’ pay, lawmaker proposes
Legislation would tie salaries to federal spending; second bill would eliminate death benefits.
Pay & Benefits
EEOC threatens furloughs for employees
Budget woes also could reverse progress to reduce discrimination case backlog, observers say.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmaker urges end to early federal retirement
Proposal would prevent future government employees, including lawmakers, from retiring with full benefits before age 62.
Pay & Benefits
OPM expands affinity benefits for same-sex domestic partners
More plans under FEHBP will provide coverage in 2012.
Pay & Benefits