Pay & Benefits

Most VA Senior Executives Pick Job Security Over Better Pay

On Tuesday, the Senior Executives Association plans to release full survey results before Senate hearing on VA proposal to ease hiring and firing of top career corps.

Management

Trump Wants to Make the Federal Government Huge Again

The Republican front-runner is tapping the resentments of white working-class voters—and promising to use federal power to address them.

Management

Feds: Tell Your Manager How You Really Feel -- With No Repercussions

OPM will start sending out the 2016 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey at the end of April.

Pay & Benefits

Senators Urge Pentagon to Postpone Cuts to Autism Coverage for Military Kids

Proposed reductions in reimbursement rates for a popular therapy offered under TRICARE would take effect on March 30.

Management

VA Senior Executives Feel 'Demoralized' and 'Betrayed' Over Latest Hiring and Firing Proposal

New survey shows department’s SES corps fear moving top career leaders out of Title 5 will hurt recruitment and retention efforts.

Pay & Benefits

Senators to Pentagon: Don't Mess With Commissary Employees' Compensation

A proposal would convert workers to a different personnel structure, potentially reducing their pay and benefits.

Pay & Benefits

FEHBP Insurance Carriers Must Cover Autism Treatment Beginning in 2017

Since 2013, providers have had the option of covering applied behavior analysis for children on the autism spectrum.

Management

VA Tries to Punish Senior Leaders in Cincinnati for Misconduct

Department proposed firing Jack Hetrick, but he retired; Dr. Barbara Temeck has been reassigned pending further discipline.

Pay & Benefits

The New Rules of the Social Security Game

What happens after the elimination of the traditional “file and suspend” strategy?

Pay & Benefits

Bill Would Give Federal Employees a 5.3 Pay Raise in 2017

The legislation would provide a 3.9 percent base pay bump, and a 1.4 percent boost in locality pay.

Oversight

Hoyer to Union: Lawmakers Shouldn't Use 'Bureaucrat as an Epithet'

NTEU announces 2016 legislative priorities in pay, benefits and workplace rights.

Pay & Benefits

Proposal Would Give Some VA Senior Executives More Pay

MSPB appeal rights also would be stripped, according to the department’s draft document under consideration on Capitol Hill.