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The author says that replacing the General Schedule pay system is inevitable and that it needs to be done. However, he says that the anxiety and distrust that would come from federal employees upon moving to a new system must be overcome as part of the process and offers some ideas as to how to best manage the transition.
Thanks to the way our brains work, we have a built-in tendency to see what we want to see as well as what we expect to see. The author says this has implications for employees in their federal careers.
A group of Congressmen have introduced legislation that dramatically changes how the federal government purchases IT goods and services. The bill is being drafted primarily in response to the botched launch of the HealthCare.gov website.
The stock market dropped in July ending a five month winning streak for the TSP C fund. For the year-to-date and the past twelve months, all of the TSP funds are showing a positive return.
Two Congressmen have introduced legislation that would repeal the recent increases in federal workers’ pension contributions.
A new analysis from the Partnership for Public Service shows that federal employees’ satisfaction with their leaders’ communication is low and has been dropping on average across the federal government.
A letter sent today by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) to Attorney General Eric Holder reveals that recently discovered emails sent by Lois Lerner referred to conservatives in some unflattering terms.
The 2015 across-the-board federal pay raise, if any, is moving along its usual slow path.
Legislation has been introduced that aims to restore Americans’ privacy rights by ending the government’s dragnet collection of phone records.
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) said in a recent statement that federal workers with unpaid taxes who hold security clearances present a risk to national security.
