GAO: OPM Still Lagging in Retirement Processing Capabilities
A recent GAO report concluded that OPM is still failing in its plans to improve the agency’s retirement processing capabilities.
A recent GAO report concluded that OPM is still failing in its plans to improve the agency’s retirement processing capabilities.
Names and salaries of individual federal employees are available online. Here is why these data are publicly available.
A new executive order and guidance from OPM formally announced the extension of the pay freeze through the end of 2013.
What percentage of a federal employee’s annuity does the government pay? The author provides the results of his investigative research.
The author raises some questions about the validity of this year’s official time report.
The author says that FMLA is not an anti-discrimination law, it is an entitlement law and a very complex one. He walks through some hypothetical scenarios to help explain some of these complexities.
Federal employees in the Washington, DC area will not be getting an extra paid holiday for Inauguration Day this year since it falls on the same day as Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday.
OPM Director John Berry has issued guidance for pay and leave purposes on the extra holiday on December 24th granted to federal employees by the president.
According to its latest monthly report, the number of retirement claims processed by the Office of Personnel Management processed was the most in a single month so far in 2012.
OPM plans to segregate “healthy” retirement cases from those that need more information to speed up retirement processing.