Federal Report
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At least one agency, under a limited pilot program, allows its employees to work from anywhere in the United States, while accepting a duty station and locality pay change along with it. The benefits may be clear to agencies, but how about employees?
June 22, 2020 -
Lots of federal workers have said they might be willing to take a pay cut if they could do their jobs from a site a hundred miles from their home office.
June 18, 2020 -
Many people investing for retirement know that it is risky, dangerous and stupid to try to time the market.
June 17, 2020 -
When Congress set up the TSP it told the managers to keep it simple, keep it cheap to users with low administrative fees, and to keep it apolitical.
June 16, 2020 -
Much of the federal workforce has spent the three months working from home. When work is about what you do, not where you do it, where does that leave locality pay?
June 15, 2020 -
Old fashioned employees staffing field offices will never disappear.
June 12, 2020 -
If your like most active and retired federal investors you have little or no money in the I fund of the Thrift Savings Plan.
June 11, 2020 -
Now that more states and jurisdictions are easing social distancing rules, millions of people are stumbling back to pre-COVID-19 normalcy - if you can remember what that was like.
June 10, 2020 -
If you could work from home, would you work for less? That’s not an option for federal workers, yet, but it could be part of the major upheaval many experts predict as the world comes out of and slowly adjusts to life after the pandemic.
June 09, 2020 -
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.
June 08, 2020 -
Two long serving appointees notch their next positions.
June 06, 2020 -
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.
June 04, 2020 -
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.
June 03, 2020 -
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.
June 02, 2020 -
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.
June 01, 2020