Pay & Benefits

  • 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
  • People whose military service was involuntarily extended or whose retirement was suspended between Sept. 11, 2001, and Sept. 30, 2009, have until March 4 to file for retroactive payments of $500 for each month of their extended service under the \"Stop Loss\" policy.

    February 21, 2011
  • Budget behemoth passes House without proposed amendments to withhold funding for within-grade increases or for promotions of federal employees. The House version of the continuing resolution proposes cutting $61 billion from hundreds of federal programs. The Senate is expected to propose holding spending at current levels.

    February 21, 2011
  • When it comes time to retire will you be financially able to pull the plug? For one in three Americans the answer is \'No\'. But for federal and postal employees, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says the picture is much brighter and tells you how working feds can get hands on help.

    February 21, 2011
  • Teleworkers report higher job satisfaction in surveys. We learn about and unexpected reason why.

    February 21, 2011
  • The Social Security Administration wants to start talks about preparing for furloughs, according to a letter from the agency to the union representing SSA employees.

    February 18, 2011
  • With less than two months to go before taxes are due, we get some tips from registered employee benefit consultant, Ed Zurndorfer.

    February 18, 2011