The administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says that the financial outlook for Medicare is improving, largely because of slowing the rate of growth in payments to most categories of medical providers.
The American Federation of Government Employees announced that the FLRA would review its Regional Director’s decision to deny an election based on a precedent set by a prior administration. The Author’s surprise may be a little facetious in that the current FLRA Chairman dissented in the old case.
However the political winds blow, negotiators representing a Federal Agency have the responsibility to advance the Agency’s interests at the bargaining table. The author offers some thoughts for those in Agencies opting into the B(1) Pilot or drawn into such optional bargaining by political leadership.
After two months of declining stock prices, the underlying Thrift Savings Plan stock funds had a good month. How are CSRS and FERS employees investing their TSP funds? There are differences and you can compare your diversification to the rest of the federal workforce. Here are the July and year-to-date results.
Human resources specialists may want to take particular note of this article. The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has successfully prosecuted two human resources specialists accused of engaging in a prohibited personnel practice by attempting to help agency management pre-select a candidate for a vacancy.
Will you get a COLA as a federal retiree in 2011? Will federal employees get a pay raise in 2011? How much will your health insurance premium go up in 2011?
In a case Fedsmith has been covering since 2007, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the Federal Labor Relations Authority’s efforts to impose its will on the National Labor Relations Board. In what some might call a slam dunk, the court decided the FLRA once again misinterpreted another Agency’s enabling legislation.
OPM is about to cancel the central hiring registry it started earlier this year. Is this the same system that OPM canceled in 1994 because it was not working?
What does it mean to “time” the stock market? It depends on your definition. In its simplest form Asset Allocation is diversification. The author says that diversification and trending may help some people improve their investment return in the TSP.
The automatic enrollment provisions of the Thrift Savings Plan begin with the first full pay period in August. Here is how this new provision will work.
