Which Health Plan is Best for You?
Which health plan is the best one for you? Making the best choice depends on your personal interests and situation. Here are guidelines you can follow in making the best choice.
Posted: November 20, 2009 8:05 AM | Full Story
- Choosing a Health Plan Have You Pulling Your Hair Out?
- Concerned About Your Health Care Costs?
- Frustration Over Higher Insurance Premiums for Federal Employees
Federal Disability Retirement: As a Medical Issue, Medical Treatment Must Be Followed
In filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits, it is often just as important for an applicant to know what will result in a denial of an application, as it is to know what is needed to get one approved.
Posted: November 20, 2009 8:02 AM | Full Story
Changing the Federal Personnel System
OPM wants to change how federal employees are managed and compensated that would include a pay for performance system
Posted: November 20, 2009 7:44 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
- A Modest Proposal For Improving Federal Supervision
- Performance Metrics: The Canary in the Coal Mine
- The ABCs (Attributes, Behaviors and Characteristics) of Good Supervision
- The Future of Pay-for-Performance in the Federal Government
OPM Ordered to Provide Same Sex Benefits
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has decided to change how OPM administers the human resources benefits program. The chief judge has ordered OPM to quit interfering with health care benefits for federal judicial employees in a marriage of two people of the same sex.
Posted: November 20, 2009 7:17 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
- Judge to OPM: Stay Out of Our Employee Benefits Decision
- Order to OPM from 9th Circuit on Same Sex Marriage Benefits
A Vote Worth $100 Million
What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform? $100 million may be enough.
Posted: November 20, 2009 9:19 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Performance Pay Works
"The interest in performance pay is consistent with workforce management practices across the United States. In the private sector, pay for performance is effectively universal. In state and local government, it's more prevalent today than it was a decade or so ago. It is deeply entrenched in the history and cultural values of our country."
Posted: November 20, 2009 8:21 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Hooah Mail!
Snail mail going to people deployed to Afghanistan could flow a little quicker. The U.S. Army is spending $500,000 to launch HooahMail, a service starting Dec. 1 to enable family and friends can send letters electronically to anyone serving in Afghanistan.
Posted: November 20, 2009 8:07 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Problems at the Bannister Federal Complex
Sick workers in an office building next to a weapons plant fear toxins have seeped from the plant and sickened or caused the death of dozens of their colleagues. The Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City is where the government has made non-nuclear parts of nuclear weapons since 1949.
Posted: November 20, 2009 7:52 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Bailout for the Postal Service?
The Postal Service points out frequently it does not get federal tax dollars. But how is it staying in business with losses in excess of a billion dollars a year? It has borrowed $10.2 billion from the federal government.
Posted: November 19, 2009 7:08 PM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
FAA Resolves Computer Breakdown
A telecommunications breakdown that disrupted flights throughout the U.S. has been fixed and all systems are working according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Posted: November 19, 2009 11:49 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
In the Glow of a Moonbow
When conditions are right, Cumberland Falls — known as the "Niagara of the South" because of its 125-foot-wide curtain of water — produces a faint rainbow as moonlight refracts through the waterfall mist.
Posted: November 19, 2009 7:07 AM | Full Story
The Reality of "Generation U"
The federal retirement Tsunami has been the source of speculation and articles but this Tsunami has not occurred. This cultural trend is not unique to the federal government and has spawned a new term: "Generation U." Here are some of the reasons. Take this survey and send in your reasons for retiring (or not).
Posted: November 19, 2009 8:51 AM | Full Story
- Are You Part of the Retirement Tsunami? Where Will You Retire?
- As the Economy Crumbles: One Federal Retiree's Feeble Attempts to Cope
- Effective Whine Management: A Critical Skill for Federal Managers and Supervisors
- From Rio to Barcelona: The Travel of One Federal Retiree
- Is There Life After Retiring from the Federal Government? One Retiree’s Perspective
- Survey on Your Retirement Plans
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