Mike Causey

Some agencies are preparing to provide masks for their employees when they return. Others aren’t requiring them. At some organizations, telework will be “encouraged” as they gradually reopen. For others, telework is still mandatory.

Two long serving appointees notch their next positions.

If you’re a nose-to-the-grindstone type who has been toiling for decades while dreaming of fun and fulfillment in retirement you might want to do a reality check.

Most federal civil servants are either working from home or in a furloughed status, but all are getting paid. By contrast at least 40 million American workers have been fired or furloughed and are seeking unemployment benefits.

While most feds oppose WEP and GPO, today’s guest columnist said he’s looked at the background, crunched the numbers and in his opinion they are fair.

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) accused the Trump administration of politicizing the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which recently deferred plans to move the international fund to a new, China-inclusive index.

Career managers can turn inspectors general into allies, not enemies.

Many of you are the reason for the special passes which often allow you, on behalf of us, to go into harms’ way every day, as part of the job.

Given the impact of the pandemic on the economy, and on prices, it is unlikely that retirees who get cost of living adjustments most years will be getting a COLA in January 2021.

Before the coronavirus, teleworking in the federal government, after more than a decade of steady growth, hit a major speed bump — the Trump administration!

It’s not a lack of ideas that’s holding up federal hiring reform

The Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) celebrated a big birthday last Friday, but there are few federal participants left in the government’s once signature pension plan.

What Stein can diagnose are sick and healthy financial trends, pointing out that for 11 years, leading up to the virus-driven crash, the stock market was in bull-market territory longer than any time in the country’s history.

Anthony Corridore spent 30-plus years at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services where he was an IT project manager and a closet poet.