Management

Should the IRS Outsource Collection of Tax Debt?

Congress is considering bills to require the use of private sector companies.

Pay & Benefits

The 15 Federal Jobs Where Women Earn More Than Men

There were only three such positions in 1992.

Oversight

Lawmaker Looks to Reform Agencies Without Hurting Their Employees

Maine Democrat advocates more fed-friendly plans to overhaul VA and USPS management.

Pay & Benefits

Charities Will Now Have to Pay a Fee to Participate in the Annual Federal Giving Drive

Combined Federal Campaign overhaul will take effect in 2016.

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.