Government Shutdown
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Who would apply for a job at a place where you might be forced to work without pay for a month, or that is threatened with bankruptcy every year? American University's Bob Tobias says that is how the federal government looks right now.
March 20, 2019 -
Bipartisan support is growing for a proposed bill to remove barriers to federal employment for people with a criminal record.
March 18, 2019 -
Of the eligible Federal Employees Retirement System participants who have Thrift Savings Plan accounts, January participation rates rose by less than 1 percent because of missed contributions due to the partial government shutdown.
March 18, 2019 -
Many current government officials were baffled by the strange, sometimes rowdy and downright undignified behavior of testy civil servants during the recent government shutdown.
March 15, 2019 -
Several members of Congress have declared the President's proposed cuts to federal employee retirement "dead on arrival," while at least one Republican has expressed more of an interest in developing a new system for prospective employees.
March 14, 2019 -
The annual winter presentation of the president's budget is akin to other ancient rituals which have since lost their original purpose.
March 14, 2019 -
The Washington, D.C. metro area's Combined Federal Campaign came tantalizingly close to meeting its 2018 charity fundraising goal, but then came the longest government shutdown in history.
March 13, 2019 -
Ever since the late 1990s some experts on government matters have been predicting a tidal wave of retirements from key federal agencies. That sparked fears of a brain drain as experienced feds fled their jobs heading for the shuffle-board courts.
March 12, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a group of nearly 40 senators are urging the appropriations committee to include back pay for federal contractors impacted by the last government shutdown, in an upcoming disaster relief package.
March 11, 2019 -
At least 10,000 federal employees from National Treasury Employees Union bargaining units have opted into one of the union's government shutdown lawsuits.
March 06, 2019 -
A federal employee weighs in on the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, and suggests excepted employees should receive additional compensation for having to work with no pay.
March 06, 2019 -
For now, the 35-day government shutdown does not seem to have caused a massive increase in federal retirement, despite predictions to the contrary.
March 06, 2019 -
Automatic General Schedule step increases, the lengthy federal hiring process and the retirement supplement for certain employees are among the issues Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) has highlighted in his annual waste book.
March 05, 2019 -
With the news and some background on NASA's Operation IceBridge, Linette Boisvert, the deputy project scientist, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
March 01, 2019 -
A time frame has been issued for when feds can expect new locality pay tables from the Office of Personnel Management, 12 days after the president signed a 1.9 percent 2019 pay raise for civilian employees.
February 27, 2019