Pay & Benefits
Smooth Sailing
Tips for ensuring your transition to retirement goes off without a hitch.
Oversight
IG: Postal Service managers fudged pay-for-performance rules
Audit finds supervisors at the financially strapped agency arbitrarily lowered performance ratings and were less generous with raises, partly to avoid a public backlash.
Pay & Benefits
Super committee’s success or failure both threaten federal pay and benefits
Employees are likely to swallow a bitter pill under any congressional scenario.
Pay & Benefits
August Leave
Brush up on the rules for taking annual and sick leave -- and tell us how you use yours.
Pay & Benefits
Despite rate hike, many federal long-term care enrollees hold on to benefit
Program management has improved during the past few years, GAO finds.
Oversight
Employees rank NASA as most innovative agency
Nonprofit looks at how federal workers view creativity in their jobs.
Oversight
OPM backs management groups seeking to participate in labor forums
Berry reminds agencies to consult with organizations representing supervisors on personnel and operations issues.
Pay & Benefits
Education will offer buyouts, early outs
Department is latest agency to reshape workforce by offering incentives to employees beginning in September.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmaker tries to reassure beleaguered feds
Maryland Democrat explains how the debt ceiling deal could affect pay and benefits of workforce.
Pay & Benefits
GSA employees aren’t paying for parking -- yet
The agency postpones its plan to revoke free parking privileges, after unions vow to fight the change.
Oversight
Postal Service seeks a lifeline from Congress
The financially ailing USPS will reach its statutory borrowing limit by Sept. 30, unless lawmakers come to the rescue.
Oversight
Senate votes to end FAA's partial shutdown
Chamber extends funding until Sept. 16, but lawmakers have made little progress on resolving underlying differences.
Defense
Obama steps up veterans hiring efforts
Task force headed by the Defense and Veterans' Affairs departments will develop reforms to ensure veterans will emerge from service better prepared for a career.
Oversight
Deal ending FAA standoff papers over deeper wounds
The underlying disagreements that resulted in a partial shutdown remain unresolved.
Pay & Benefits
Social Security Trade-Offs
Considerations for married couples in applying for benefits.
Pay & Benefits
OPM releases draft rules on new federal internship program
Initiative will have three tracks for current students, recent graduates and presidential management fellows.
Pay & Benefits
Senators seek three-year pay freeze extension, workforce cuts
Proposal targets feds just after debt deal temporarily spares government jobs and compensation.
Defense