Retirement Saving Tips from the Labor Department
The Department of Labor has provided ten money saving tips to utilize when preparing for retirement.
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The Department of Labor has provided ten money saving tips to utilize when preparing for retirement.
The EPA has announced that BP has temporarily been suspended from new contracts with the federal government.
The Federal Workers Alliance recently sent a letter to House and Senate leaders asking that federal employees be excluded from further cuts as Congress embarks on its sequestration and fiscal cliff negotiations.
OPM recently announced revisions to its bad weather policy statuses and procedures.
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) has announced a plan he is putting forward to avoid going over the “fiscal cliff.” The plan includes a number of reforms that, if enacted, would directly impact the federal workforce.
The Office of Personnel Management has released guidelines for agencies to use for analyzing and acting on the results from the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.
The author notes that some readers who contacted him for clarification on the requirement to have insurance for five years before retirement have apparently been given incorrect information as to whether the time requirement also applies to a spouse. Here is a quick explanation of the time requirement.
If you have to call meetings with your staff (and you should consider seriously whether or not you really do), avoid making your meetings look like this.
The Postal Service is offering the “Letters from Santa” program to allow letters to be sent to children from Santa Claus and postmarked from the North Pole.
The author says that many people don’t consider the possibility of having performance appraisals that actually improve performance. He says that having a system designed to improve performance would be an appraisal system actually worth having instead of being just about the performance rating.