Pay & Benefits
GAO faults delay in charging feds for TSP overhaul
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board erred when it chose not to charge TSP members two years ago for millions of dollars paid to American Management Systems Inc. for a failed systems modernization project, according to the General Accounting Office.
News
Contractor criticizes new federal jobs Web site
A federal human resources contractor on Thursday blamed some agencies’ recruitment difficulties on glitches with the government’s new central jobs Web site, USAJobs.
Pay & Benefits
Snowball effect
Glitches in the TSP’s new record keeping system have had unpleasant consequences for some feds.
Management
Longtime AFGE member elected to lead union
Delegates of the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, elected a new president Wednesday night, ousting two-term president Bobby Harnage.
Pay & Benefits
Telework effort hampered by agencies' mixed messages
The government’s telework initiative at federal agencies has suffered because of a lack of uniform guidance from the two departments charged with leading the effort, according to the General Accounting Office.
Pay & Benefits
TSP's automated system on the mend, officials say
While not all of the wrinkles have been ironed out of the new Thrift Savings Plan’s automated record keeping system launched in June, board officials confirmed Monday morning that significant progress had been made over the past several weeks in getting the system running.
Pay & Benefits
Back to school
OPM continues to crack down on fake college degrees in the federal workforce.
Pay & Benefits
College credit
The Senate recently approved a bill that increased the amount of money agencies can spend to repay employees’ student loans.
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