Managers have an important role in developing their employees, and this includes helping their employees become better prepared for retirement. The author lists some steps federal managers can take to help their employees with this important task.
A House committee has advanced a bill that may impact the federal pay raise for 2016—by not proposing an alternative pay raise figure for next year.
I am a midnight shift employee. If I am off on Sunday night but work the night of the holiday (in this case Monday), do I get holiday pay being that I worked a part of the holiday?
A D.C. Circuit Court lambasted OPM for asking for a three judge panel to review a single judge’s ruling without having a solid case.
The Congressional Budget Office has released its long term budget report which includes a picture into the prospects of Social Security. If you are planning to retire soon, pay attention.
Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) hit OPM director Katherine Archuleta with some heated questions on Tuesday at a House committee hearing about the recent OPM data breach.
Employers will use dress and appearance standards to create an employment “brand” for who they are, their culture and their values. As society becomes more casual in its dress standards, employers can find that instituting a dress code will not only draw resistance from some employees, it can land the company in the middle of a religious discrimination lawsuit.
The Office of Personnel Management has released more information about the recent cybersecurity attack and now says that more systems than previously thought have also been compromised.
Legislation being introduced by Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) would make it a felony to embezzle federal employees’ retirement funds.
Many government officials and media types were predicting a virtual avalanche of federal retirement submissions that will lead a massive void that cannot be filled by younger workers. The author says that while he does predict a rise in the rate of federal employee retirements, he does not see the doomsday scenario others are predicting and explains the logic behind his reasoning.
