Pay & Benefits

• Thrift Savings Plan returns ‘very positive’ in 2010

  Tom Trabucco reviews the December returns on your TSP.

  Pay & Benefits

  January 03, 2011
• OPM details pay freeze exclusions

  The Office of Personnel Management sent a memo to agencies explaining who the pay freeze applies to and how it will be implemented. OPM answers several questions about performance increases, step increases and collective bargaining raises.

  Management

  January 03, 2011
• Your $1.3 Blllion Pay Freeze Tab

  If you work in Lansing, Albany, Albuquerque, Charlotte, Harrisburg or Portland, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has some good news for you... and some bad news.

  Mike Causey

  January 03, 2011
• 2011: Interesting (gulp!) Times

  Whether you are working today or taking a brief early-winter break, get ready for 2011. It promises to be an \"interesting\" year. For reasons as to why you should fasten your seat belt, check out Senior Correspondent Mike Causey\'s column today.

  Mike Causey

  December 31, 2010
• Pay Freeze & Retirement

  Will the proposed federal pay freeze hamper the hunt for the best and brightest and clog the promotion pipeline in your office. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it could very well happen.

  Mike Causey

  December 30, 2010
• IRA, Roth IRA Tax Traps

  If you have or plan to have an IRA or a Roth IRA, check out Senior Correspondent Mike Causey\'s column today before you make any moves. His expert guest says their are tax traps you need to know about.

  Mike Causey

  December 29, 2010
• Pay freeze: What’s the good news?

  The Partnership for Public Service\'s John Palguta explains both the good and bad news about the pay freeze.

  Federal Drive

  December 28, 2010
• Baby Boomers Boomerang

  After you retire what next? You can\'t paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (it\'s been done anyhow) but you need to have a plan. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey put the question to a retirement expert who has all the right answers.

  Mike Causey

  December 28, 2010
• Three-track system to replace Federal Career Internship Program

  President Obama has signed an executive order that replaces the controversial Federal Career Intern Program with three consolidated \'pathways.\' Administration officials say the old hiring system put agencies at a competitive disadvantage with private sector employers.

  Budget

  December 27, 2010
• VA pushes hiring reforms through program managers

  The agency is using service level agreements to help ensure hiring managers are involved in all parts of the process. VA cut the amount of time it takes to hire a new employee by 20 days. VA hopes to get the average time down below the governmentwide goal of 80 days in 2011.

  Budget

  December 27, 2010
• Brain Drain Alert’s 11th Birthday

  It\'s been more than 10 years since experts started issuing their annual warnings of a government brain drain. The fact that it hasn\'t happened yet is of little important because this time, we are assured, it\'s for sure. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey reads the tea leaves.

  Mike Causey

  December 27, 2010
• The Ghosts (good ones) of Christmas

  Whatever your reason for working today, be assured that Senior Correspondent Mike Causey feels your pain, but thankfully from afar. Check out his ghost of Christmas past column.

  Mike Causey

  December 24, 2010
• Pay Freeze and Raise React

  How would you like a pay freeze and a two percent raise at the same time? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey\'s readers react.

  Mike Causey

  December 23, 2010
• DoD stop loss pay deadline extended

  March 4, 2011, is the new deadline to apply for Retroactive Stop Loss Pay.

  Defense

  December 22, 2010