Mike Causey

  • Senior Correspondent Mike Causey offers some guidance for younger employees.

    January 01, 2008
  • Senior Correspondent Mike Causey peers into his cup of kindness and takes a look at the new year to come.

    December 31, 2007
  • Reminder from Senior Correspondent Mike Causey: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. This includes buyout rumors.

    December 28, 2007
  • Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says that not having to work does not mean not getting paid.

    December 27, 2007
  • Senior Correspondent Mike Causey\'s first column about union political endorsements brought lots of e-mail from feds who think it\'s a bad idea, but there is another side to the argument worth considering.

    December 26, 2007
  • It\'s Christmas and time for Mike\'s traditional Mushy Christmas column. With lots of readers, it\'s even more popular than fruit cake.

    December 25, 2007
  • The holiday that isn\'t... for some feds.

    December 24, 2007
  • Thanks to last-minute action by Congress, most white collar federal workers will be getting a slightly larger pay raise next month. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has the magic numbers.

    December 21, 2007
  • Whenever Congress passes legislation that benefits federal workers you can bet it will benefit some member of Congress, or a staffer, as well.

    December 20, 2007
  • Although the federal pay raise is still up in the air, some federal retirees will get a COLA on as many as three different benefits. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey talks about the so-called double and triple dippers.

    December 19, 2007
  • What do federal workers think when the unions that represent them endorse a presidential candidate? Not very much, according to senior correspondent Mike Causey.

    December 18, 2007
  • Some government workers have more than 1,000 hours of unused sick leave, but only about one in every four will get any kind of reward for staying well when they retire. Today Mike Causey deals with FERS Flu Part Deux!

    December 17, 2007
  • When a federal union representing Defense workers, tax collectors or letter carriers endorses a presidential candidate, do you jump for joy or gnash your teeth? Mike Causey says there\'s a long history of federal unions jumping into political campaigns -- and it\'s already started this year.

    December 14, 2007
  • Most federal workers are now under the FERS retirement system and a growing number of them are suffering from what Senior \'FERS Flu\'. Meantime, some of the best minds in government are working on a possible cure.

    December 13, 2007

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