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The approaching year end offers a great time to reflect on on your last year and look ahead to the next. The author offers some tips from a financial perspective on how to plan for the coming year.
The backlog of outstanding retirement claims at OPM saw almost no reduction in November.
The author says that the belief that executives are the keys to an organization’s performance is an idea that goes back decades, but he says that middle management is an area that is often overlooked as a crucial element in how employees view their work experience in an organization.
A possible increase in federal employee retirement contributions has become a major sticking point in budget negotiations.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday announced he’s trimming the Pentagon headquarters’ budget by 20%, starting in 2014. It will result in jobs cuts and reduction in contracts with private companies.
The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials, enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals – and map their relationships – in ways that would have been previously unimaginable.
Can you become eligible to retire whenever your age and length of service add up to 85? The authors offer some details on this common retirement myth.
With a wave of government retirements opening the way for a new generation of federal employees, Hispanic Americans, the nation’s fastest-growing minority group, remain chronically underrepresented in the government. And Hispanics say in large part that they are hamstrung because they lack the kind of contacts and networks that have helped African Americans secure federal jobs.
