Pay & Benefits
White House Budget Plan Praises the TSP, Then Cuts It
Plan to change G Fund returns would make fresh retirees invested in the L Income Fund run out of savings eight years earlier.
Pay & Benefits
Workforce Plan Stresses Pay for Performance, OPM Nominee Advances, and More
A weekly round-up of pay and benefits news.
Pay & Benefits
Why Trump’s Performance Pay Fund Won’t Happen in 2019
Proposed $1 billion interagency award pool would only be big enough to give feds currently meeting or exceeding performance standards an average boost of $481 next year.
Oversight
Senate Panel to Vote on OPM Nominations After Long Wait
Hearing ends years of stalling over Obamacare rule process.
Pay & Benefits
Trump Formalizes 2019 Pay Freeze Proposal, Revives Benefits Cuts
The freeze is coupled with a $1 billion interagency fund to reward high performers as a first step in moving the civil service toward pay for performance.
Pay & Benefits
Budget Deal Includes No Changes to Federal Employee Compensation
Pay and benefits are not among the offsets to spending increases, quelling federal employee group fears for now.
Pay & Benefits
Federal Employee Union Preps for Year of Benefits Battles
NTEU members lobby lawmakers amid shutdown threat and ahead of budget launch.
Pay & Benefits
New Recruitment Incentives, Agriculture Telework Policy Delayed, and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Pay & Benefits
OPM Runs Into Annual Retirement Surge
Nearly 15,000 workers opted to leave federal service in January, in line with previous years.
Management
Lawmakers Make Progress on a Spending Deal
GOP lawmakers have proposed increasing spending caps by $80 billion for defense and $63 billion for non-defense annually.
Management
Senator Proposes Codifying DHS Cost Control Panel
Bill would enshrine agency’s Joint Requirements Council in statute.
Pay & Benefits
Reducing Costs at FEHBP, Civil Service Reform and More
A weekly round-up of pay and benefits news.
Oversight
House Oversight Democrats Request Subpoena over HHS Gag Order
Agency has not complied with a nearly year-old information request, Cummings says.
Management
Appointee Watch: HHS Secretary, Fed Chairman Confirmed
Trump announces nominees to Defense, HUD and OMB.
Oversight
Mediation Service Tops Best Small Agencies to Work in Washington
Partnership for Public Service releases revised rankings after extra data from OPM.
Management
Lawmakers Seek to Re-Establish Labor-Management Councils
The Trump administration last year abolished the groups and ordered agencies to cease collaborating with organized labor.
Oversight
GAO Puts Security Clearance Process Back on High Risk List
Backlog for clearances reached more than 700,000 in September 2017.
Pay & Benefits
Federal Employee Advocates Increasingly Frustrated by Cycle of Stopgap Spending Bills
Lawmakers appear resigned to another short-term funding package, despite calls for a full-year budget deal.
Pay & Benefits