Check Your TSP: Worst August for Stocks Since 2001
Thrift Savings Plan investors are undoubtedly disappointed with the returns in the TSP funds in August and so far in 2010. Stocks are down for the month–at a rate not seen since August 2001.
How did the TSP funds perform last month? See the latest returns at TSPDataCenter.com.
Thrift Savings Plan investors are undoubtedly disappointed with the returns in the TSP funds in August and so far in 2010. Stocks are down for the month–at a rate not seen since August 2001.
Managers are responsible for developing their employees in many ways. Here’s how a manager can help employees become better prepared for retirement.
While some rates are going up, federal travelers will have less money to spend in many areas while on government travel in fiscal year 2011.
A U.S. Marshals Service Officer was faces a lawsuit saying she partially strip searched a Public Defender in front of a male officer and prisoners.
The Author seeks to clarify for readers what is going on with various union petitions to represent TSA’s workforce or some part of it. FLRA’s regional director’s decision on the currently filed petitions doesn’t address future petitions, nor should it. But some seem to think it’s a two union fight when maybe it’s not.
Disloyalty can be toxic. There is a sizable contingent of Uncle Sam’s workforce that dislike their bosses, their management in general, entire agencies, and even the Federal government itself. It seems to be growing larger and more vocal all the time.
An Army officer was fired after storing weapons in an abandoned vehicle. He charged that the penalty was too severe and went to federal court to prove his case.
AFGE issued a press release stating that “TSA Administrator John Pistole met today with AFGE John Gage to discuss collective bargaining and other workplace issues.” Does that meeting constitute an unfair labor practice?
FERS employees who retire prior to age 62 are entitled to an annuity supplement, either immediately or upon attaining the MRA (Minimum Required Age). Some believe the supplement can equal, or even exceed, the amount of the annuity itself. Can this be true?
The author asks the reader to go with him through Alice’s looking glass for a tour of the world of human resources management in our nation’s capitol. Up is down, down is sideways as Agency chief human capital officers thread their way through the minefield of identifying what might be amiss in the U.S. civil service.