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For the Trump administration, 2018 was a productive year filled small, but productive steps toward its goal of modernizing the federal workforce. But it was a very different kind of year for federal employee unions.
A package of bills from House Democrats would reopen government, provide full-year funding for most federal agencies and give civilian employees a pay raise in 2019.
Look back at the most popular columns from senior correspondent Mike Causey this year. Readers were most interested in updates on the Thrift Savings Plan and a potential pay raise for federal workers in 2019.
This year was a crazy one for members of the federal family, with many legislative threats to retirement plans as well as efforts to make it much easier to fire civil servants.
The Grand Canyon will be celebrating 100 years as a national park in 2019
If my dinner group can figure it out, why can't the politicians?
Many people who spent their career with Uncle Sam are glad they did. But when it’s over, many people are glad, too. Take today’s holiday guest columnist, Tony Korlik, for example.
Shutdown will almost certainly spill over to next year, when Democrats will control the House
Federal employees stuck at home during the great shutdown of 2018 brought to mind the idea of teleworking.
In what was designed to be standard form to help federal employees prove the impact of the partial government shutdown on their pay, the Office of Personnel Management suggested furloughed workers trade their services for lower rent payments.
Federal employees will soon get a chance to join a class action suit against the government for the current shutdown.
The Environmental Protection Agency had enough carryover funds to continue operations through Friday, Dec. 28. With no appropriations deal in sight, the agency is preparing for shutdown. The Smithsonian is preparing to close museums and the National Zoo after the new year without further appropriations.
Finally OPM has a home-page link to vital shutdown information.
The truth is that shutdowns are bad, no one wins, and everyone loses. The sooner it is over the better off we will all be.