Pay & Benefits
Bill to boost TSP contribution rates set for official debut
Legislation encouraging employees to take full advantage of agency matching will be introduced Monday.
Management
Postal Service ends another quarter in the red
After $3.2 billion in net losses, USPS continues to push its own financial improvement plan.
Pay & Benefits
Can Part-Time Retirement Save USPS?
A little-known rule already on the books could help the cash-strapped agency save big.
Management
Keep rural post offices open, but cut employee hours and benefits, USPS says
Postal Service changes course on closures and offers new early-out incentive.
Management
Incentives, not mobility, called key to improving Senior Executive Service
OPM and industry officials discuss keys to improving SES.
Pay & Benefits
Thrift Savings Plan Roth option is official
Many employees will have to wait for it, however, due to delays in preparing payroll systems.
Management
Postal Service officials keep pressing for their own reform plan
They emphasize that rural post office closures would be phased in gradually.
Pay & Benefits
Revved Up About Transit Parity
Bills to bring mass transportation benefits in line with those for driving could be gaining momentum.
Pay & Benefits
TSP funds finish April with mixed results
All the retirement options have positive gains so far in 2012.
Pay & Benefits
More than 1,000 IRS employees agreed to buyouts in fiscal 2011
Figure doesn’t include results of a second round of offers in January.
Briefing
Food Safety On the Line
Critics say using more private sector poultry inspectors could weaken quality checks.
Pay & Benefits
Watchdog documents ongoing workers’ compensation struggles
Management and oversight deficiencies lead to avoidable costs, GAO notes.
Management
USPS says Senate-passed postal reform effort doesn’t go far enough
Agency will be back before Congress in a few years, postmaster general says.
Management
Fifty-four senior executives win Presidential Distinguished Rank Awards
Defense, Agriculture receive most awards.
Pay & Benefits
One Reason to Save Your Vacation Time
Legislation lets feds invest unused leave in their Thrift Savings Plan accounts.
Management
Senate passes U.S. Postal Service overhaul
Legislation would let USPS offer buyouts and early outs to 100,000 employees.
Pay & Benefits
Forced retirement for Postal Service workers voted down in Senate
Measure that would rid bill of reductions in workers’ comp fails; overall vote to come.
Tech
Telework Data and Defense
OPM may have trouble reporting telework progress; Pentagon unveils new telework policy.
Pay & Benefits
Senator tries to rid postal reform bill of language reducing workers’ comp
Amendment would substitute friendlier House-backed changes to program for employees injured on the job.
Pay & Benefits