When Christmas is On Wednesday: Historical Data Not Promising for Feds Getting Extra Holiday
Will federal employees get an extra day off on Christmas Eve this year?
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Satisfaction with Government Jobs Dropping
Despite problems with furloughs, a salary freeze and disparaging publicity about the federal government, some agencies came out with good ratings on job satisfaction from employees.
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The long, strange road for a federal employee pay raise has gone through twists and turns but appears likely to be implemented in January, ending the pay freeze that has been in place since 2011.
• Leave a CommentFederal Workers Falling Further Behind In Pay, Council Finds
A federal advisory group reported Tuesday that federal workers have fallen slightly further behind the private sector in pay, a trend that union leaders said they hope will be stopped by getting the government back in the habit of paying annual raises.
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Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has released his annual wastebook report, a compilation of what he believes to be some of the most egregious examples of wasteful spending at the federal level.
• Leave a CommentDebt Limit Fight Looming
A tough political battle during an election year is looming again.
• Leave a CommentA Bill Introduced in the Senate Would Lower Contractors’ Compensation Cap
The Senate has advanced a budget bill that would slash employee compensation costs contractors can charge the federal government. Currently, the compensation cap is set at $950,000 for each contract, and the Senate bill would change that to $487,000 for all defense contractor employees, but just the top five executives for civilian contractors.
• Leave a CommentArmy to Cut up to 4,000 Captains and Majors
The U.S. Army is sending roughly 19,000 active-duty captains and majors to a screening board for early separation this spring,.
• Leave a CommentSenate GOP Fails In Final Bid To Restore Military Pension Cuts To Budget Bill
A final effort by Senate Republicans to halt cuts to pensions of military retirees failed late Tuesday, after Democrats blocked an amendment to the controversial budget bill.
• Leave a Comment“This is like the Stasi.”
In an angry exchange, the German chancellor compared the spying by with those of the Stasi, the all-powerful secret police of the communist dictatorship in East Germany, where she grew up.
• Leave a CommentTSP Board Proposes Different Default Fund For New Hires
The agency that runs the Thrift Savings Plan will seek a congressional green light to make the Lifecycle Fund (L Fund) the default option for new hires automatically enrolled in the TSP.
• Leave a CommentShooter Charged With First Degree Murder in LAX Shooting
A federal grand jury Tuesday charged Paul Anthony Ciancia with first-degree murder in an 11-count indictment related to the fatal shooting of a Transportation Security Administration Officer at Los Angeles International Airport last month, the Department of Justice announced in a statement Tuesday afternoon.
• Leave a CommentDOD Official: Snowden ‘Stole Everything – Literally Everything’
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden stole vastly more information than previously speculated, and is holding it at ransom for his own protection.
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The Thrift Savings Plan has provided favorable returns to stock fund investors over the past several years. One indicator is the increasing number of TSP investors with at least $1 million in their TSP accounts.
• Leave a CommentD.C. Far Outpaces Nation In Personal Earnings
D.C. residents are enjoying a personal income boom.
• Leave a CommentMicrosoft Exec to Run Health Care Web Site
The Obama administration is set to announce that Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene will be brought on to succeed White House official Jeff Zients in leading the overhaul of HealthCare.gov, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced Tuesday.
• Leave a CommentPre-Check Coming to DC
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has expanded its pre-check program into Washington D.C. so now more passengers can skip taking off their shoes, belts and coats and removing their computers and toiletries for inspection when traveling.
• Leave a CommentSnowden: NSA’s Indiscriminate Spying ‘Collapsing’
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden wrote in a lengthy “open letter to the people of Brazil” that he’s been inspired by the global debate ignited by his release of thousands of National Security Agency documents, and that the NSA’s culture of indiscriminate global espionage “is collapsing.”
• Leave a CommentDHS Watchdog Resigns
The chief watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security has stepped down from his post under a gathering cloud of allegations about his own conduct — and already has accepted another position in the department he used to oversee.
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