Pay & Benefits
TSP Rebounds in February
Federal retirement savings plan back in the black after weak January.
Management
White House Backs Major Postal Overhaul
Budget proposals would save cash-strapped agency $20 billion by 2016.
Pay & Benefits
Obama: Growth of Military Pay and Benefits Cannot Be Sustained
Budget recommends less generous allowances, more fees for vets’ health care.
Pay & Benefits
Obama’s Fed-Friendly Budget Blueprint
White House eliminates previously proposed cuts to feds' compensation and plans to announce 1 percent pay raise recommendation next week.
Management
Border Patrol Agents: Let Us Shoot at Rock Throwers
Union defends use of force despite recent backlash.
Pay & Benefits
Drinking and Sleeping: How D.C.-Area Feds Are Spending Their Snow Day
Washington’s federal employees are taking advantage of their post-Oscar day off thanks to Mother Nature, according to the Twittersphere.
Management
OPM Director to Feds: ‘I Am Here for You’
Katherine Archuleta touts her labor experience, importance of federal workforce in speech to union.
Pay & Benefits
The Incredible Shrinking Pay Raise in One Chart
Federal employees haven’t seen a pay boost above 2 percent since 2009.
Pay & Benefits
Senator To Focus on Federal Employee Pay, Morale
Montana Democrat Jon Tester calls Obama’s 1 percent pay raise proposal insufficient.
Pay & Benefits
Locality Pay Still in a Deep Freeze
While federal employees’ base pay appears to be headed for its second consecutive increase, locality rates have stayed the same for four years.
Pay & Benefits
More Than 134,000 Feds to Telework Next Week
Effort will save government more than $11 million, group says.
Management
OPM Rejects Plea to Extend Deadline for Presidential Management Fellows
Hundreds of jobless PMFs from the class of 2013 have until April 8 to find a position in federal government.
Pay & Benefits
Union Calls Obama’s Proposed 1 Percent Raise ‘Pitiful’
Groups say recommended increase for federal employees does not keep up with inflation, private sector salaries.
Oversight
House Tries Again to ‘Stop Government Abuse’
The lower chamber will vote on legislation to increase transparency across government.
Pay & Benefits
Obama to Propose 1 Percent Raise for Feds, Troops in FY15 Budget
President also recommended a 1 percent boost in fiscal 2014 after a three-year pay freeze.
Pay & Benefits
USPS Denies It’s Making Letter Carriers Return Early to Avoid Paying Overtime
D.C.-area employees say mail is piling up as they are unable to finish their routes.
Management
Hundreds of 2013 Presidential Management Fellows Haven’t Been Hired
Candidates and alumni blame tight agency budgets, furloughs; ask OPM to extend April 8 deadline.
Pay & Benefits
Obama Will Not Include COLA Reductions in FY15 Budget
White House announcement comes after advocacy groups, lawmakers opposed switch to the less generous formula for calculating retirement benefits.
Pay & Benefits
Military Families Are Using Food Stamps More Than Ever
Defense commissaries see spike in government assistance.
Oversight