Federal Employees Encouraged to Get Flu Shots
It’s flu season, and the Office of Personnel Management wants to make sure you get your flu shot this year.
It’s flu season, and the Office of Personnel Management wants to make sure you get your flu shot this year.
OPM is proposing a rule that would extend life insurance coverage to the children of same-sex couples who work for the federal government.
Results from the 2014 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) indicate that a substantial majority of millennials like their jobs with the government.
The backlog of retirement applications at OPM stayed relatively flat in September.
OPM has announced that federal employees who die in the line of duty will now be honored by having flags given to their beneficiaries.
The author outlines five questions that identify a few of the initial considerations that federal employees should examine when determining whether they should pursue OPM disability retirement.
OPM has proposed to expand FEHB coverage to temporary employees with a full government contribution. The proposal does not address how the agency is able to ignore existing legislation in the new proposal and this issue is being questioned by the ranking member of a Senate committee.
A common situation involving agency misinformation can arise when a federal employee is told that he or she can withdraw his or her contributions and can later redeposit retirement contributions after departing federal service and when he or she reaches retirement age. The author explains the details of this misconception.
The Office of Personnel Management announced the long awaited final regulations for the phased retirement program for federal employees late last week. As part of that announcement, OPM has also released a document with answers to some common questions employees are likely to have about this program.
After more than a year, the Office of Personnel Management is finally issuing the final rules on the phased retirement program for federal employees.