More Steps Lie Ahead
Agencies have been notifying unions that they expect to conduct furloughs, triggering bargaining that the unions say they will pursue aggressively and that agencies say they will honor. While...
View ArticleContinued Funding Means Loss of April Raise
While planning for fiscal 2014 has begun, Congress is still finalizing work on the current year budget. The Senate is set to join the House in preventing the 0.5 percent pay raise for federal employees...
View ArticleNew House Budget Plan Has Familiar Look
The House Budget Committee this week is set to approve a budget plan for fiscal 2014 that repeats several proposals affecting federal benefits from prior years. They include requiring equal...
View ArticleSome Budget Issues Settled, Others Continuing
Political leaders have wrapped up work on the budget for the current fiscal year, nearly six months into it, with enactment of a catchall spending measure that among other things cancels the 0.5...
View ArticleSome Growth in Employment Projected
As measured by full-time equivalent positions, the budget projects an increase of 6,100 over the estimated 2013 total of 1,128,800; the 2012 actual was 2,090,700. The biggest gainer would be VA, up...
View ArticleMany Questions Unanswered
Another question which OPM has not settled is whether members of Congress and their staff stand to lose the employer contribution toward premiums, which is worth about 70 percent of the total in FEHB,...
View ArticleSeveral Key Proposals for Employees at Stake
The House and Senate budget resolutions differ in many ways affecting federal employees. Most notably, the House plan calls for a 10 percent reduction in the workforce through attrition and for...
View ArticleGlimmer of Hope Offered on 2014 Raise
Several developments in Congress offer hope that a federal employee raise will be paid in January 2014, and that it might even be higher than the 1 percent the White House has recommended. The House...
View ArticleDoD Issues New Furlough Policies; FDA Won’t Furlough
As DoD prepares to launch in early July what will be the largest number of furloughs among agencies imposing them—the latest count now stands at about 650,000—components are issuing guidance on various...
View ArticleFurloughs Fade but More Cuts Loom
Several more agencies have cut back on their planned numbers of furlough days, continuing a trend that has existed through the summer. The latest are: the EPA, which several times earlier had cut its...
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