Pay & Benefits
TSP Portfolios Faltered Again in August
Nearly all of the funds in the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings plan returned to negative territory last month.
Pay & Benefits
It's Official: Biden Formalizes Average 4.6% Pay Raise Plan for Feds in 2023
The annual declaration of a national emergency preventing large automatic pay increases from taking effect confirms that 0.5% of the total pay raise will go to an average increase in locality pay.
Workforce
A Union is Calling on the VA to Replace Its Chief Negotiator Following Trump-esque Bargaining Demands
Despite edicts from President Biden and VA Secretary Denis McDonough to establish more collaborative labor-management relations and empower labor groups, the department continues to push for a contract that closely mirrors the former president’s anti-union executive orders.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers Are Urging OPM to Beef up Feds’ Fertility Benefits
Democrats in both chambers of Congress bemoaned the abridged—and often expensive—coverage of treatments such as in vitro fertilization in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
Pay & Benefits
More than 110 Lawmakers Are Urging the Education Dept. to Extend Public Service Loan Forgiveness Waivers
Although the Biden administration has already begun work to make many recent changes that make the program easier to use permanent, those reforms won’t be implemented until next summer.
Pay & Benefits
The Contractor Responsible for the TSP’s Troubled Recordkeeping Transition Pledges to Improve
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Workforce
Here’s Where Federal Employee Unions Can Look to Expand Their Ranks
According to new data from the Office of Personnel Management, nearly 300,000 federal employees are eligible to form unions but haven’t.
Oversight
TSA Union Local Leader Gets House Arrest for Misappropriating Funds
The president of a union local in Boston pleaded guilty to using nearly $30,000 in union funds for personal purposes.
Workforce
A Union Is Urging Support for TSA Workforce Reform in the Defense Policy Bill
The American Federation of Government Employees also said they oppose a plan to delay the Defense Department’s return to one-year probationary periods for new employees.
Pay & Benefits
GSA Announces Travel Per Diem Rates, and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Pay & Benefits
GAO Will Investigate the Troubled TSP Recordkeeper Transition
Officials at the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings program said nearly 2 million participants have successfully set up their new online account access, and call center wait times are down to around 10 minutes.
Pay & Benefits
A Closer Look at the Locality Pay Increase That Could Be Coming for Thousands of Feds
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Workforce
A Federal Employee Group Has Renewed Calls for Agencies to Protect Workers Post-Roe
Among the requests are for administrative leave and travel reimbursement for federal workers who must travel across state lines to receive abortion services, as well as the ability to opt out of relocating to states that ban the procedure.
Pay & Benefits
A Recently Reconstituted Advisory Panel Is Finally Making Locality Pay Recommendations
According to the Federal Salary Council, federal employees made 22.47% less on average than their private sector counterparts last year.
Workforce
The Federal Labor Authority Has Substantiated Union Accusations against EEOC Over Reentry
The federal anti-discrimination agency said it was committed to bargaining “in good faith” with its labor representatives but stopped short of committing to roll back its unilaterally implemented reentry plan.
Pay & Benefits
Another Firefighter Compensation Bill Passes, and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Workforce
An Appeals Court Has Once Again Overruled a Trump-era FLRA Policy
Shortly before the 2020 election, labor authority Republicans had unraveled decades of precedent, finding that agencies may begin implementing new governmentwide rules when union contracts are extended for the purposes of negotiating a new agreement.
Workforce
Senate Dems Have Joined the Push to Block Schedule F
As Republican groups discuss plans to reinstitute the controversial plan to strip tens of thousands of federal workers of their civil service protections, congressional Democrats have renewed their efforts to block it.
Pay & Benefits
Every TSP Fund Rebounded in July
For the first time in months, all of the core offerings in the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings program posted gains.
Workforce
'There Needs to Be a Reckoning': Republicans Introduce a Bill to Make Feds At-Will Employees
The legislation, along with recent talk of a renewed effort to implement Schedule F, makes clear that a “major assault” on the federal civil service is coming, regardless of who the next Republican presidential nominee will be.
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