Management
Does a Better Fate Await this Year’s Presidential Management Fellow Finalists?
New hopefuls are announced as the deadline expires for the class of 2013 to land jobs.
Pay & Benefits
HUD Will Post Officials' Salaries Online
Department will make available by May 16 comprehensive salary data of the country’s public housing authority directors.
Pay & Benefits
Did the Federal Government Pick Up Your Student Loan Tab?
If you received money from Uncle Sam to help pay for your higher ed, we want to hear how you obtained the benefit.
Pay & Benefits
Uncle Sam Will Ask Feds About Pay, Job Satisfaction This Spring
OPM will administer its annual survey of the government workforce beginning in late April.
Pay & Benefits
Uncle Sam Has Shrunk the Gender Pay Gap Over the Past 20 Years
Federal women in 2012 earned 87 cents for every dollar a man earned – 17 cents more than in 1992.
Pay & Benefits
House Votes to Increase Feds’ Pension Contributions
The Republican fiscal 2015 budget resolution includes several provisions affecting the government workforce.
Oversight
House Panel: No Pay Raises for Congress in 2015
Appropriations committee rejects a bid to grant lawmakers a per diem for living expenses.
Pay & Benefits
Student Loan Perk Doesn’t Benefit Most Federal Employees
Republicans want to eliminate a $70 million incentive to reduce overall spending.
Pay & Benefits
Retirement Backlog Fell in March, But It’s Still Higher Than It Was 3 Months Ago
OPM still has nearly 6,000 more applications to process now than it did in December 2013.
Pay & Benefits
House Panel Approves Plan to Increase Feds’ Pension Contributions
Republican fiscal 2015 budget resolution would require feds to contribute up to 5.5 percentage points more to their retirement benefit.
Pay & Benefits
Military Families Worry About Possible Commissary Closures
A Pentagon proposal to slash subsidies that keep base stores affordable would negatively affect middle-class personnel, survey finds.
Pay & Benefits
TSP Wilts in March
Last month brought small gains for some funds, negative returns for others.
Oversight
Republican Budget Asks Federal Employees to Contribute More to Pensions
The fiscal 2015 blueprint also would shrink the workforce through attrition and eliminate the student loan repayment benefit.
Pay & Benefits
Congressional Pensions Are Still More Generous Than Federal Employees’ Benefits
Retired lawmakers in 2012 received on average between $27,000 and $33,000 more in annuities than federal workers.
Pay & Benefits
The Government Is Actually Not Growing When It Comes to Earnings
The federal government was the only industry to see a decline in earnings in 2013, according to new statistics.
Pay & Benefits
Bill Would Give Feds a 3.3 Percent Pay Raise in 2015
Legislation would apply to both General Schedule and hourly workers.
Tech
OPM Seeks IT Security Pros
The agency says it won’t lay off employees as part of its technology overhaul.
Pay & Benefits
House Panel Approves TSP Bill
Legislation would auto-enroll new federal hires into one of five lifecycle funds instead of the government securities fund.
Pay & Benefits
Bill Would Change TSP Default Settings
House panel marks up legislation Wednesday that would auto-enroll new federal hires into one of five lifecycle funds instead of the government securities fund.
Management
Fiscal 2015 Budget Winners and Losers
The Justice Department and the Small Business Administration would see the biggest decreases in spending from their 2014 enacted levels in the president’s latest proposal.
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