Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers call for extension of mass transit commuter benefits
The subsidy will return to maximum of $125 a month -- from $230 a month now -- if action is not taken.
Pay & Benefits
Veterans hiring reaches new heights
Twenty-eight and a half percent of new hires in 2011 were veterans -- the highest percentage in 20 years, OPM reports.
Oversight
Retirement applications up 24 percent from last year
News report finds 2011 likely will be busiest year for federal retirements since 2001.
Pay & Benefits
About 130 employees take SBA buyouts, early outs
The offers were extended to about 300 Small Business Administration employees.
Pay & Benefits
Reid wants passage of payroll tax package before recess
The Senate leader may also be tying the fate of a separate $900 billion-plus spending plan to the tax break.
Pay & Benefits
GAO recommends OPM improve group life insurance disclosures
Incomplete information could lead federal employees to pass up FEGLI for the wrong reasons, watchdog finds.
Pay & Benefits
House vote expected Tuesday on bill containing pay freeze
Legislation extending payroll tax holiday also would increase amount feds contribute to their pensions.
Pay & Benefits
USPS hopes for another deferral on mandatory payment
The cash-strapped agency owes $5.5 billion to prefund retirees’ health benefits.
Oversight
Plan to relocate FBI headquarters advances
Senate resolution would consolidate satellite offices and boost security.
Pay & Benefits
House bill would extend pay freeze
GOP plan to finance payroll tax holiday also would require feds to contribute more to their pensions.
Pay & Benefits
A guide to the federal government's holiday parties
From department to department and office to office, no federal holiday party is exactly the same.
Pay & Benefits
Senate again rejects payroll tax cut bills
Republican measure included provisions that would have extended the federal pay freeze and reduced the government workforce.
Oversight
Labor Department asks contractors to step up hiring of disabled workers
Specific target of 7 percent seen as more effective than ‘good faith effort.’
Pay & Benefits
Mass transit commuter perks set to expire
Without congressional action the benefit would drop from $230 to $125 a month, beginning in January 2012.
Pay & Benefits
Groups urge House to reject proposals reducing federal pay and benefits
Federal employee advocates implore lawmakers not to finance payroll tax holiday at the expense of government workers.
Oversight
USPS, unions extend contract negotiations again
Deadline has been moved back more than a week, to Dec. 16.
Oversight
Another legislative standoff looms
Democrats say they'd make Republicans regret leaving for Christmas without a deal on extending the payroll tax holiday.
Oversight