Pay & Benefits

  • During a Shutdown: non-essential teleworkers unplug!

    February 28, 2011
  • With a potential shutdown, feds looking for monetary relief would have to finalize it before operations cease.

    February 25, 2011
  • An inside look at the judiciary system and the people that work there. We hear from John Bendzunas of the Federal Probation and Pretrial Association and Patricia McNutt, president-elect of the Federal Court Clerks Association. February 25, 2011

    February 25, 2011
  • There\'s a new reality show in the works with a cast of millions. If everything goes wrong, says Senior Correspondent turned TV critic Mike Causey, it will debut in early March with a cast of millions who will get paid nothing for their trouble.

    February 25, 2011
  • Where were you during the last government shutdown? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has tracked down some survivors who relive what, for some, was a nightmare while others recall it as the good old days.

    February 24, 2011
  • The shutdown 15 years ago could provide insight for feds but no guarantees can be made.

    February 23, 2011
  • J. David Cox AFGE National Secretary-Treasurer Tom Scott President, AFGE Local 987 Michael Freeman President, AFGE VA Local 498 Richard Gennetti Chief Steward, AFGE SSA Local 2006

    February 23, 2011
  • Tom Trabucco, the Director of External Affairs at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, discusses the likelihood of feds taking out TSP funds in the event of a furlough.

    February 23, 2011
  • Jessica Klement of the Federal Managers Association joins the show to discuss the feeling about feds in Congress. Plus, Federal Times\' Steve Watkins and Steve Losey talk about what a government shutdown could look like this time around. February 23, 2011

    February 23, 2011
  • The possibility of a government shutdown next month is very real. So what were the lessons learned in the last big shutdown 15 years ago? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says there is plenty of history, but a lot of it is being written by people who weren\'t in government, or who were maybe teenagers when it happened.

    February 23, 2011
  • Robert Tobias, director of Key Executive Leadership Programs at American University, says it\'s easy for federal managers to \"hunker down\" in the trenches while their budgets are under fire. But Tobias argues that now is the time to re-evaluate and improve how their employees deliver services to the public.

    February 22, 2011
  • House Speaker John Boehner has raised eyebrows by saying the administration has added 200,000 federal jobs. Partnership for Public Service\'s John Palguta said it\'s not the size that matters. It\'s what you do with it.

    February 22, 2011
  • A year ago this month, a federal worker in Texas was killed for being in the wrong place (his office) at the wrong time. Last week two federal agents were murdered, and two others killed, doing their jobs. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says we shouldn\'t, ever, forget these men.

    February 22, 2011
  • We learn what it\'s like to live through a shutdown from someone who was there last time: John Elliot.

    February 21, 2011