Pay & Benefits
Some Lawmakers Are Feeling More Generous Toward Feds
Bigger COLAs for federal retirees, better care for vets among recent legislative proposals.
Management
Telework, Communication Key to Improving Employee Engagement, Federal Managers Say
Officials stress importance of listening to and acting on employee feedback.
Pay & Benefits
The Highly Educated Federal Workforce in Two Charts
Federal agencies are hiring more employees with professional degrees.
Management
Obama Would Increase Federal Workforce by 14,000 in 2015
White House notes federal employee compensation hasn’t kept pace with rising education levels or the private sector.
Pay & Benefits
Retirement Claims Backlog Continues to Grow
OPM creates a less ambitious timetable to process outstanding retirement claims.
Pay & Benefits
Defense Unveils Options to Overhaul Military Retirement System
Possible proposals include providing lump-sum payments to personnel that would likely reduce overall compensation.
Management
Lawmaker Says Federal Government Should Hire More Employees Without College Degrees
Senator pitches pilot program to hire individuals with ‘alternative’ forms of higher education.
Pay & Benefits
Feds Petition for More Pay; Some Could Get It
Senior-level managers, scientific employees and EPA workers could be coming into more money soon.
Pay & Benefits
Fed Groups Offer Tepid Praise for Obama’s Budget
Federal employee advocates applaud funding boosts, but deride 1 percent raise proposal.
Pay & Benefits
TSP Rebounds in February
Federal retirement savings plan back in the black after weak January.
Management
White House Backs Major Postal Overhaul
Budget proposals would save cash-strapped agency $20 billion by 2016.
Pay & Benefits
Obama: Growth of Military Pay and Benefits Cannot Be Sustained
Budget recommends less generous allowances, more fees for vets’ health care.
Pay & Benefits
Obama’s Fed-Friendly Budget Blueprint
White House eliminates previously proposed cuts to feds' compensation and plans to announce 1 percent pay raise recommendation next week.
Management
Border Patrol Agents: Let Us Shoot at Rock Throwers
Union defends use of force despite recent backlash.
Pay & Benefits
Drinking and Sleeping: How D.C.-Area Feds Are Spending Their Snow Day
Washington’s federal employees are taking advantage of their post-Oscar day off thanks to Mother Nature, according to the Twittersphere.
Management
OPM Director to Feds: ‘I Am Here for You’
Katherine Archuleta touts her labor experience, importance of federal workforce in speech to union.
Pay & Benefits
The Incredible Shrinking Pay Raise in One Chart
Federal employees haven’t seen a pay boost above 2 percent since 2009.
Pay & Benefits
Senator To Focus on Federal Employee Pay, Morale
Montana Democrat Jon Tester calls Obama’s 1 percent pay raise proposal insufficient.
Pay & Benefits
Locality Pay Still in a Deep Freeze
While federal employees’ base pay appears to be headed for its second consecutive increase, locality rates have stayed the same for four years.
Pay & Benefits