Commentary
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The FIFA Women's World Cup has analogs in the world of federal management.
June 13, 2019 -
The Trump administration's plan to send most of the work and workers at the Office of Personnel Management to the General Services Administration continues to be met with a lot of pushback.
June 13, 2019 -
Complaints from employees and applicants are one of the most common measures of prohibited personnel practices, although they do not capture all allegations.
June 11, 2019 -
Leslie Weinstein, an Army Reserve officer and consultant for DoD, explains why the Pentagon should follow other sectors and use experts to ensure vendors are meeting cyber requirements.
June 11, 2019 -
Despite a decade of mostly good-to-excellent returns in the stock-indexed C, S and I funds, most of the money feds have invested in their in-house 401(k) plan is in the fund which typically had the lowest returns.
June 11, 2019 -
The federal workforce is getting noticeably older — and more workers are delaying their retirement dates. But drawing conclusions from the moving target numbers is easier said than done.
June 10, 2019 -
Are labor relations at SSA, VA so bad they'll never get better?
June 07, 2019 -
Most TSP investors know the stock market is long overdue for a major correction. The question is when will that happen, how long will it last, and what if anything you should be doing about it?
June 07, 2019 -
The amount of the 2020 white collar federal pay raise will range anywhere from zero to 3.1% if federal unions and Democrats in the House have their way.
June 06, 2019 -
Blaming USAJobs is another example of trying to find a silver bullet to kill everything that is wrong with the federal hiring process.
June 05, 2019 -
Seli Agbolosu-Amison, Cybersecurity Data Scientist at NetCentrics, says the quantum cryptography may very well emerge as a turning point in the history of cybersecurity.
June 05, 2019 -
An arbitration panel decided mostly against the American Federation of Government Employees in an impasse with Social Security.
June 05, 2019 -
It will be late this year, probably November or December, before active and retired federal workers find out how much extra money they may have next year.
June 05, 2019 -
Despite the TSP's money-saving low administrative fees many retirees want more investment options and also more freedom to get at their money.
June 04, 2019 -
When it comes to saving and investing for retirement, federal and military personnel are way ahead of their private sector counterparts.
June 03, 2019