Some Thoughts For the New President and Congress Regarding Federal Employment
The author says that there are better ways to enact changes to the federal civil service laws than vilifying federal employees.
The author says that there are better ways to enact changes to the federal civil service laws than vilifying federal employees.
Finding that the Government failed to justify reassignment of a Department of Justice whistleblower, the appeals court has bounced his appeal back to MSPB and ordered the Government to pay his costs.
How much time and money are spent at the VA on official time? GAO finds no consistent reporting system.
The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is targeted for elimination in a new House bill.
These are some facts about deferred retirement that could be critical for a federal employee.
A TSP participant can designate anyone as a beneficiary to a TSP account, however, only a spousal beneficiary can choose to leave the funds in TSP. The author says it’s important to understand all implications of a spousal beneficiary deciding to keep funds inside of the TSP.
With a significant percentage of federal employees indicating they may quit if Donald Trump should be elected, the number of retirement claims should have surged more than usual in January. That did not happen.
The annual surge of retiring federal employees to kick off the new year has led to a sizable increase in OPM’s backlog of retirement applications.
The Merit Act of 2017 would make it much easier to fire a federal employee. Here are the details of this recently introduced legislation and what it would mean for the federal workforce.
With its 20-year history of civil service reform, Georgia provides insights into how federal civil service may change under the Trump administration.