Pay & Benefits

August Leave

Brush up on the rules for taking annual and sick leave -- and tell us how you use yours.

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.

Pay & Benefits

Poll: August Leave

How do you use your annual and sick leave? Take our poll.

Oversight

Employees rank NASA as most innovative agency

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

Oversight

OPM backs management groups seeking to participate in labor forums

Berry reminds agencies to consult with organizations representing supervisors on personnel and operations issues.

Pay & Benefits

Education will offer buyouts, early outs

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

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

GSA employees aren’t paying for parking -- yet

The agency postpones its plan to revoke free parking privileges, after unions vow to fight the change.

Oversight

Postal Service seeks a lifeline from Congress

The financially ailing USPS will reach its statutory borrowing limit by Sept. 30, unless lawmakers come to the rescue.

Oversight

Senate votes to end FAA's partial shutdown

Chamber extends funding until Sept. 16, but lawmakers have made little progress on resolving underlying differences.

Defense

Obama steps up veterans hiring efforts

Task force headed by the Defense and Veterans' Affairs departments will develop reforms to ensure veterans will emerge from service better prepared for a career.

Oversight

Deal ending FAA standoff papers over deeper wounds

The underlying disagreements that resulted in a partial shutdown remain unresolved.

Pay & Benefits

Social Security Trade-Offs

Considerations for married couples in applying for benefits.

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.

Pay & Benefits

Senators seek three-year pay freeze extension, workforce cuts

Proposal targets feds just after debt deal temporarily spares government jobs and compensation.

Pay & Benefits

FAA Furloughs

What affected employees can expect in the coming weeks.

Defense

Under debt deal, military pay, veterans programs in play for cuts

Officers and veterans groups are concerned nothing -- including health care and education benefits -- will be immune from the belt tightening.

Oversight

House plans to recess without funding FAA

Partial shutdown will continue until September.

Pay & Benefits

Officials press Congress on FAA funding

Partial shutdown has left some employees without a paycheck, including inspectors still on the job.

Oversight

FAA furloughs unprecedented, officials say

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