Pay & Benefits

  • If there is a federal hiring freeze, how will it affect your agency, your operation and your job? What are the odds that you and your agency might be exempt? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says that if the past is prologue they may be better than you think.

    June 13, 2011
  • Tim McManus, vice president for Education and Outreach at the Partnership for Public Service...joins host Derrick Dortch to talk about the work his agency is doing. June 10, 2011(Encore presentation June 17, 2011)

    June 10, 2011
  • A new memo from OPM Director John Berry reminds agencies that only employees who are rated fully successful should receive pay raises. The reminder comes as the House passed a provision to prohibit pay adjustments to poor performers.

    June 10, 2011
  • It\'s a harsh lesson to learn: once you get a job and start collecting a paycheck, the tax bite can be a nasty surprise. It doesn\'t have to be completely bad, as we learn from registered employee benefit consultant Ed Zurndorfer.

    June 10, 2011
  • Somebody once said that when building a bridge or putting up a house it is a good idea to measure twice and cut once. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says Congress is about to put that to the test next week by ordering a 10 percent reduction in federal jobs.

    June 10, 2011
  • Bill Bransford is a partner at the law firm, Shaw, Bransford & Roth. He joins the Federal Drive with information on the legal rights of employees who may feel targeted to accept buyouts.

    June 09, 2011
  • The Government Printing Office wants to reduce staffing by 15 percent, and is offering buyouts as a way of getting there. Eventually. CHCO William Harris says the process won\'t be complete until the end of the year.

    June 09, 2011
  • What do buyouts and buffaloes have in common? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says both were once plentiful, then almost disappeared and are now making a comeback. For the latest confirmed sighting check out the Federal Report.

    June 09, 2011
  • Host Mike Causey is joined by Carol Bonosaro, president of the Senior Executives Association, and Federal Times senior staff writer Steve Losey. They will discuss federal pay and benefits and plans in Congress to cut them. June 8, 2011(Encore presentation July 6, 2011)

    June 08, 2011
  • People who get civil service, military or Social Security retirement benefits are in line for a cost of living adjustment next year in the 3 percent range. But will Congress try to freeze, lower or delay that long-awaited COLA? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it\'s happened before....

    June 08, 2011
  • Tom Shoop is the Editor in Chief for Government Executive Magazine. He joins In Depth with information on how feds are preparing for a pay freeze

    June 07, 2011
  • The Government Printing Office has put in a request to Congress to offer up to $25,000 in lump-sum buyouts and early outs to its 2,200 employees in anticipation of reduced appropriations next year.

    June 07, 2011
  • The current congressional debate on how best to punish federal slackers reminds Senior Correspondent Mike Causey why circular firing squads almost never work as intended.

    June 07, 2011
  • The Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton have teamed up for a report on the state of succession planning in the federal HR community. Ron Sanders is a senior executive advisor for Booz Allen Hamilton.

    June 06, 2011