Pay & Benefits

  • Tom Trabucco, the director of external affairs at the FRTIB joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the year in TSP.

    January 03, 2012
  • For most of 2011, it looked as if federal workers were about to be bent, folded, stapled or otherwise mutilated by politicians. After the dust settled, the government is still with us. How come?

    January 03, 2012
  • What were the most popular Mike Causey columns from this year? Here they are listed for you!

    January 02, 2012
  • Registered employee benefit consultant Ed Zurndorfer has tips on charitable giving and capital assets to save money on your 2011 taxes.

    December 30, 2011
  • When it comes to shoveling it, official Washington is years ahead of anybody else. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says this applies to snow-day policy matters too.

    December 30, 2011
  • Would you take a buyout if the boss offered you one? You might want to decide now because if and when an offer comes, it won\'t be on the table very long, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

    December 29, 2011
  • The Energy Department is one of six agencies testing a framework aimed at revamping one of the thorniest issues in government: how supervisors evaluate employees. Chief Human Capital Officer Mike Kane led a working group of more than 100 union, management and government representatives who drafted the framework. He earned the \"Chief Human Capital Officer of the Year\" award from the CHCO Council.

    December 28, 2011
  • Are you better off financially slogging it to work or sleeping in five days a week? Some people say that all things considered they would be better off as a retiree than as an office serf. So do the math, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

    December 28, 2011
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in 2011 federal employees\' paychecks increased by 1.3 percent compared to a 1.2 percent increase in the private sector.

    December 27, 2011
  • For most of this year federal workers, postal employees and retirees have been running scared. The issue has been trying to figure out what Congress and the White House could and would do to them, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. The bottom line, after all that fear and pain, is nothing. At least so far...

    December 27, 2011
  • If you ask about federal employees what the biggest story of 2011, the words that cropped up the most were: freeze, shutdown and Congress, according to a Federal News Radio open-ended response survey.

    December 26, 2011
  • Whatever your reason for working this holiday weekend, be assured that Senior Correspondent Mike Causey feels your pain, but thankfully from afar.

    December 26, 2011
  • Meredith Shiner, Senate reporter at CQ Roll Call, tells In Depth with Francis Rose about what this extension means for you.

    December 23, 2011
  • With no end to lawmakers\' fedbashing in sight, the American Federation of Government Employees is looking forward to 2012\'s presidential and Congressional elections. \"Federal workers are a sane, responsible group of citizens. They vote in big numbers,\" AFGE President John Gage told Federal News Radio.

    December 23, 2011