Pay & Benefits
OPM updates sick leave policies
Final rule expands eligibility and provides leave guidance on communicable diseases to agencies.
Pay & Benefits
Analysis: Remedies beyond the pay freeze
With agencies facing rising retirements and attrition, the two-year run-up to the next election is a good time to revamp the General Schedule.
Pay & Benefits
Health insurance choices can ease the pain of the pay freeze
Smart planning during open season can save feds enough money to offset the cost of forgoing a raise, observer says.
Defense
McKeon insists on hearing from the military on ‘don’t ask’
Presumptive House Armed Services chairman says he wants to hear from the chiefs of the military services and field commanders on repealing ban.
Pay & Benefits
Medicare Wrap-Up
Questions and answers for those pondering their retirement health insurance options during this open season.
Oversight
Postal Service embraces reform legislation
Federal officials support measures increasing agency’s flexibility, but union leaders fight Saturday delivery proposal.
Pay & Benefits
Retirement funds have a volatile November
TSP offerings lose momentum, with most hovering around zero, or dipping slightly into the red for the month.
Oversight
Fiscal panel reinforces pay freeze, changes to federal benefits
Final deficit commission report proposes reform of FEHBP and government retirement systems.
Pay & Benefits
Locality pay frozen in 2011
Economic conditions prompt Obama to keep civilian federal employees’ base and locality pay flat next year.
Oversight
Pay freeze prompts concerns in Congress
Democrats express tentative opposition to Obama proposal while Republicans call for more-drastic cuts.
Pay & Benefits
Washington reacts to Obama’s federal pay freeze
Feedback from players on both sides of the pay debate.
Pay & Benefits
Poll: Feds see politics in pay raise decisions
An informal survey of Government Executive readers found most believe politics is the driving force behind federal pay negotiations.
Oversight
White House says pay freeze proposal was not a bargaining chip
Spokesman says decision was driven by deadline set in law, not upcoming meeting with congressional leaders.
Defense
White House bows to political realities on military pay
For fiscal 2011, the House-passed defense authorization bill includes a 1.9 percent pay raise for the military.
Defense
From Nextgov.com: New leader of traumatic brain injury center brings combat experience to job
Navy Capt. Paul Hammer, psychiatrist , has served two tours in Iraq.
Pay & Benefits
Medicare coverage deserves a second look during open season, experts say
It pays to factor it into your post-retirement health insurance planning.
Pay & Benefits
Voters back steep cuts in federal payroll
Poll respondents support slimming the ranks of federal employees or decreasing their pay.
Defense