The Government Pension Offset
The Government Pension Offset (GPO) and the Windfall Elimination Provision can impact your retirement income. This article briefly explains how the GPO may impact a federal retiree.
The Government Pension Offset (GPO) and the Windfall Elimination Provision can impact your retirement income. This article briefly explains how the GPO may impact a federal retiree.
The stock market has been volatile in 2007. Billions of dollars have been traded in the TSP during the year as some investors have decided to buy and sell different funds as the market ebbed and flowed. What lessons can this volatile market provide for investors?
The Federal Labor Relations Authority has previously found that allowing professional employees in one unit to represent employees in another bargaining unit violates federal law. That decision may be relevant in an ongoing battle between the FLRA and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
The Merit Systems Protection Board says in its most recent newsletter that agencies often prefer to hire new employees by waiting for the applicants to come to them. The result is that Uncle Sam’s civilian army brings in older and more experienced workers–even if that is not what the agency really needs.
Most readers are opposed to opening up the federal employee health plan to all Americans and support of a proposal to do so makes readers less likely to vote for the candidate. Here are the results of our recent survey.
There was plenty of bad news in the past month and the fluctuations in the stock market frequently reflected the uncertainty. But, despite the storm clouds, TSP investors did very well for the month of September–as well as for the recent quarter and for the last year as well. You can sleep better tonight–your TSP investments are still moving higher.
Disrespectful conduct or retaliation for a whistleblower complaint? The VA suspended an employee for one day for an incident in November 2005. The case eventually went to court and the suspension stands.
Should new employees be automatically enrolled in the Thrift Savings Plan? Author John Grobe asked the question and here are the answers that readers sent to him.
A former Air Force pediatrician, investigated for his receipt of films “directed at adolescent activities and older men with younger boys”, has failed in his bid to get a federal court to order the military to alter his military records.
This article describes some of the characteristics of a Federal union its paid representatives. The author invites readers to comment on questions posed by the article concerning the role and access to services given to federal employee unions by federal agencies.