Employee Policy
Employee group renews calls for agencies to protect feds, post-Roe
Among the requests: administrative leave and travel reimbursement—to cover federal workers who must travel across state lines to receive abortion services—as well as to opt out of relocating to states that ban the procedure.
Financial Planning
Financial tips from a TSP millionaire
Financial professional and longtime fed Abraham Grungold joins our partner GovExec's podcast to discuss the Thrift Savings Plan
Workforce
A Federal Employee Group Has Renewed Calls for Agencies to Protect Workers Post-Roe
Among the requests are for administrative leave and travel reimbursement for federal workers who must travel across state lines to receive abortion services, as well as the ability to opt out of relocating to states that ban the procedure.
Employee Policy
It’s time to treat the federal workforce better
Reducing employee burnout will help agencies retain the employees they need to advance their mission.
Benefits
HHS is establishing a new office targeting long COVID
The effort to manage this particular scourge comes as part of our partner site's weekly list of news updates on COVID that you may have missed.
Pay & Benefits
GovExec Daily: Financial Tips From a TSP Millionaire
Financial professional and longtime fed Abraham Grungold joins the podcast to discuss the Thrift Savings Plan
Retirement
What you need to know about Social Security and federal retirement
The latest on this key element of the government’s retirement package.
Pay
Another firefighter compensation bill passes, and more ...
A bill providing better pay for federal firefighters passed in the House, and separately a measure to reform retirement for federal first responders advanced, along with other newsworthy items in our weekly roundup on pay and benefits.
Retirement
How to plan for your retirement
Guests from over the last year on the GovExec podcast discuss the TSP, planning and preparation for your life after work.
Benefits
Security clearance experts encourage national security workers to seek mental health treatment
The government and private sector are pushing to improve the narrative around mental health care.
Pay & Benefits
GovExec Daily: How to Plan For Your Retirement
GovExec Daily guests from the last year discuss the TSP, planning and preparation for your life after work.
Employee Policy
VA Is 'Closely Watching' the Fate of Abortion Access as It Weighs Offering the Service
The leader of the largest hospital network in the country says he has the authority to change the department's policy.
Pay
House clears the way for Biden’s 4.6% pay raise plan
Lawmakers effectively endorsed the president’s pay raise proposal for federal workers Wednesday, although the Senate has yet to weigh in on the issue.
Pay & Benefits
The House Has Cleared the Way for Biden’s 4.6% Pay Raise Plan
Lawmakers effectively endorsed the president’s pay raise proposal for federal workers Wednesday, although the Senate has yet to weigh in on the issue.
Benefits
It could get easier to qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
The Biden administration earlier this month announced a wholesale reform of a web of federal loan forgiveness, including a number of measures to make it easier for federal workers to make use of the historically headache-inducing programs.
Pay & Benefits
Here’s How It Could Get Easier to Qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
The Biden administration earlier this month announced a wholesale reform of a web of federal loan forgiveness, including a number of measures to make it easier for federal workers to make use of the historically headache-inducing programs.
Pay
Schedule F ban among workforce provisions in annual defense policy bill
The House just last week passed the bill—which also contains provisions granting full civil service protections plus a pay raise to TSA employees.
Employee Policy
DOD will continue to conduct reproductive health procedures
Jacqueline Feldscher joins our partner site's podcast to discuss how the Pentagon is treating the Dobbs decision and abortion at its facilities.
Pay & Benefits
It Could Soon Get Even Easier for Feds to Qualify for Student Loan Forgiveness
The Education Department has proposed a package of regulatory reforms aimed at making loan forgiveness programs more accessible.
Management