Pay & Benefits

Commerce offers buyouts, early outs

Agencies continue to seek authority from OPM to reshape the government workforce amid impending budget cuts.

Pay & Benefits

Treasury refills federal pension coffers

Law requires government to repay with interest retirement funds once debt limit is increased.

News

Buyouts at HUD affect employees outside Washington

Department is offering incentives to eligible employees in certain Western states.

Pay & Benefits

GAO plans to offer buyouts, early outs

Members of the Senior Executive Service are not eligible for the incentives in this round.

Pay & Benefits

Super committee’s success or failure both threaten federal pay and benefits

Employees are likely to swallow a bitter pill under any congressional scenario.

Pay & Benefits

Despite rate hike, many federal long-term care enrollees hold on to benefit

Program management has improved during the past few years, GAO finds.

News

Bill would authorize back pay for furloughed workers

Rep. Frank LoBiondo, R-N.J., introduces legislation that would reimburse thousands of FAA employees.

Oversight

Employees rank NASA as most innovative agency

Nonprofit looks at how federal workers view creativity in their jobs.

Pay & Benefits

Education will offer buyouts, early outs

Department is latest agency to reshape workforce by offering incentives to employees beginning in September.

News

GOP lawmaker will introduce back pay bill for FAA workers

Rep. Frank LoBiondo's legislation calls for retroactive pay for furloughed employees.

Pay & Benefits

Lawmaker tries to reassure beleaguered feds

Maryland Democrat explains how the debt ceiling deal could affect pay and benefits of workforce.

Pay & Benefits

OPM releases draft rules on new federal internship program

Initiative will have three tracks for current students, recent graduates and presidential management fellows.

News

FAA employees could return to work next week

Senate is set to approve funding extension Friday, ending furloughs.

Oversight

New SES performance system slated for early fall

OPM hopes to unveil framework by the end of September.

Oversight

Budget crunch could hit USAID, State personnel hard

Former government officials say jobs at international development agencies could be at risk.

Trends

Breaking Through

Women have come a long way in the top ranks, but the SES still is mostly male.

News

Federal employee groups await the chopping block

Debt ceiling bill does not directly target feds’ pay and benefits, but discretionary spending caps will affect the government workforce.

Oversight

FAA furloughs unprecedented, officials say

As shutdown enters its second week, thousands of agency employees remain off the job.

Pay & Benefits

Pension Tension

This time, a lawmaker targets his colleagues instead of the federal workforce.

Pay & Benefits

Unions rally to protest debt ceiling impasse, furloughs

Advocates for government workers take to Capitol Hill to decry congressional stalemate.