Management
Feds and Their Managers Aren’t Seeing Eye-to-Eye on Much, Including Promotions
Report shows large workforce assessment disparities between supervisors and their staffs.
Oversight
Blowing the Whistle at Your Agency May Have Just Gotten Easier
Senator is creating a new caucus to ensure whistleblower protections are enforced.
Pay & Benefits
Obese Feds Can Now Have Their Diet Pills Covered
OPM also wants to make it easier to receive bypass, lap band surgeries.
Oversight
Republicans, White House Finally Agree on Something: Postal Reform
Hearing showcases progress on ever-elusive USPS overhaul, though many hurdles remain.
Management
Obama Wants Federal Contractors to Pay Men and Women Equally
President will sign two executive orders Tuesday to prevent pay discrimination.
News
Lawmaker: We Deserve a Pay Raise
At least one congressman thinks legislators cannot 'live decently' on their current salaries.
Management
Federal Agencies Shed 10,000 Jobs in March
The federal workforce has shrunk significantly in the past two years.
Management
The Shrinking Federal Workforce, In One Chart
Sequestration and the resulting hiring freezes have taken a toll over the past two years.
Pay & Benefits
Boehner: Make It Easier to Fire VA Execs
House speaker gets behind a GOP effort to hold managers more accountable for their job performance.
Pay & Benefits
Your Mass Transit Benefits Could Soon Double
Legislative provision bringing benefits back to their 2013 levels would apply retroactively to Jan. 1.
Pay & Benefits
Supreme Court Declines Case Involving Due Process for Feds in 'Sensitive' Positions
About 200,000 federal employees can no longer appeal adverse personnel actions to independent board.
Pay & Benefits
House GOP Budget Would Cut Compensation for Postal Workers
Republican plan would slash jobs at several agencies.
Pay & Benefits
This Is What an Overhaul of the Federal Employee Pay System Could Look Like
Current system – including across-the-board pay raises -- is a 'relic of a bygone era,' report says.
Pay & Benefits
VA Rehires Employee Involved in Drunk Driving Tragedy for $100K Job
Incident occurred in government vehicle while attending a federal employee conference near Dallas.
Management
Lawmaker to Feds: You Don’t Need So Many Limos
'In hard times you can have too much of a good thing,' moderate Democrat says.
Pay & Benefits
Senators to OPM: Your Retirement Claims Processing Is So 1977
Lawmakers tell OPM its system is old-fashioned and wasting government money.
Management
USPS Workers Went Bowling, Gambling Using Agency Credit Cards
Postal Service employees spent tens of thousands of dollars for personal expenses on the agency’s dime.
Thinking Ahead
Harnessing Ingenuity
Martha Dorris is reaching out to communities of ‘solvers’ to find new ways to address government challenges.
Pay & Benefits