House resolution would prevent increases to pension contributions
A resolution introduced in the House would offer a number of protections for federal employees, not the least of which would be to prevent any increases in the amount that feds would have to contribute towards their retirement benefits.
Posted: May 16, 2012 9:17 PM | Full Story
- Federal Employee Retirement Annuities: How Bad Will It Be?
- House Approves Federal Worker Cuts, Pay Freeze
- House Approves Increase in Pension Contributions
Is the long-term gain worth the short-term loss?
The author tells a true story of a federal employee and friend who suffered some serious health problems and had to contend with leave without pay and retirement annuity considerations to cover his medical bills.
Posted: May 16, 2012 8:56 PM | Full Story
- A Common Misconception about the FERS Annuity Supplement
- Phased Retirement: How Would It Impact Your Federal Annuity?
Obama budget defeated 99-0 in Senate
In March, the House defeated the President's budget 414-0, and now the Senate has voted it down 99-0.
Posted: May 16, 2012 4:12 PM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
No budget, no pay, some House lawmakers say
A group of Democratic and Republican House members say it's time to punish themselves if Congress keeps failing at its basic duty of passing an annual budget - and they want to hit where it hurts: their own paychecks.
Posted: May 16, 2012 4:15 PM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Going Postal: How Congress has failed its shareholders
The author compares Congress to a private company's board of directors and says that with respect to acting as a national board of directors for the Postal Service, Congress has failed miserably.
Posted: May 16, 2012 9:27 PM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Riding a Wave of bad publicity, TSA may take budget hit
The Obama administration has requested $7.6 billion for TSA, $197 million less than the 2012 enacted levels.
Posted: May 16, 2012 8:52 PM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Postal Service to announce new downsizing plan Thursday
The U.S. Postal Service is set to announce some downsizing of its mail processing plant network Thursday, but the plan will likely be more modest than leaders envisioned just a few months ago.
Posted: May 16, 2012 8:53 PM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
NUWC staff named federal employees of the year
Three employees from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport Division were selected as winners of the Rhode Island Federal Employees of the Year Award.
Posted: May 16, 2012 11:23 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Rep. Mike Rogers: TSA must get 'tougher'
Ahead of a congressional hearing on security breaches that plague airports across the country, Rep. Mike Rogers said Wednesday that the TSA must get "smarter, leaner and tougher" for the country to avoid a repeat of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Posted: May 16, 2012 9:34 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Senate panel approves benefits for same-sex partners
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would extend health and other benefits to same-sex domestic partners of gay and lesbian federal employees.
Posted: May 16, 2012 9:19 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
OSHA probes Florida postal worker's illness
The illness of a U.S. Postal Service employee who handled a leaky package from Yemen at a Florida mail-sorting facility is being investigated, authorities said.
Posted: May 16, 2012 1:39 PM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Report: Mismanagement rampant at airports authority
The regional authority overseeing one of the largest public works projects in the country is rife with mismanagement, a glaring lack of transparency and lavish spending habits that have included thousand-dollar dinners and a $9,200 plane ticket to Prague, according to a scathing interim report from the U.S. Department of Transportation's inspector general.
Posted: May 16, 2012 10:08 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Legislation aims to help feds save more for retirement
Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) has introduced legislation that would encourage federal workers to save at least five percent of their pay in the Thrift Savings Plan.
Posted: May 15, 2012 11:17 AM | Full Story
National Council's report to President on labor relations: nuthin' much happened, let's do it some more and maybe sumpthin' will.
After nearly 2 years of meetings, Agency arm twisting to establish pilots, pressure to identify metrics, and 177 pages of print, the long awaited report on b(1) (that's 5 USC 7106(b1)) was sent to the president this month. If you think GSA spent too much on a conference, the report proves that you can spend a ton and not even get an entertaining speaker or a dip in the hot tub in return.
Posted: May 15, 2012 4:07 PM | Full Story
USPS losses in real time
Just how bad are the Postal Service's losses? According to a real-time loss counter on Senator Tom Carper's (D-DE) Web site, they are mounting by the thousands every second and amount to $25 million per day.
Posted: May 15, 2012 5:43 PM | Full Story
