Several readers have requested a copy of the amendment to withhold funding for the payment of within-grade increases for the federal workforce for the remainder of the current fiscal year. Here is the wording for this amendment.
There is a serious effort to cut back on federal spending with proposals to freeze federal promotions and step increases.
The author discusses the potential harm a recent FLRA decision will do to collective bargaining.
Professional politicians are experts at trying to keep everyone happy–especially when it comes to spending money. Federal employee pay and benefits are a hot topic now and will continue to be through the 2012 election. How did the President’s proposed budget deal with the recommendations by the President’s own deficit commission in cutting federal pay and benefits? Here is a quick summary.
One of the benefits that federal jobs offer is a superior retirement savings plan. Here are a few tips to help you plan ahead so that when the time comes, you can retire in comfort.
Why did the amount of money in your paycheck go down? The controversy and the uproar continues.
When a colleague sends out documents with frequent typos, many of us cannot help but view that colleague as careless or even incompetent. But that doesn’t need to happen to any of us. Try these proofreading techniques.
A properly implemented insurance plan can save you money, provide flexibility and give you control of that survivorship benefit.
The current leadership of MSPB appears not so committed to their oath of office as to advancing a particular political agenda, a union bias or a specific value system. I think a person writing me as well as many other Federal employees have misunderstood the very nature of ethics.
When a Federal employee finds his medical condition prevents one from performing one or more of the essential elements of the job, he is considered “disabled” under the Law, and therefore eligible for Federal Disability Retirement benefits. Such an individual will often not be accommodated by the Agency, if only because “accommodation”is a difficult requirement to fulfill.
