National Treasury Employees Union
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When Congress isn't negotiating on spending caps or budget deals for this fiscal year and the next, members are considering other pieces of legislation that could have an impact on your work.
January 29, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of Special Counsel presents its findings from two investigations involving employee misconduct and negligence at the Veterans Affairs Department.
January 26, 2018 -
As the House and Senate appear ready to lift the government shutdown on its third day, one question remains — who will get paid, and when?
January 22, 2018 -
The president signed a three-week continuing resolution until law, that reopens the government and keeps it open until at least Feb. 8.
January 22, 2018 -
The Office of Management and Budget told agencies to begin sending employees informal notices about their work status by the end of Friday. Formal notices detailing their "excepted" or "furloughed" status should come over the weekend and into Monday.
January 19, 2018 -
The IRS' workload is expected to grow under the tax reform legislation President Donald Trump signed into law in December last year, but Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, says the IRS doesn't have enough funding or employees to implement the tax law.
January 16, 2018 -
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) have reintroduced the FAIR Act, which would give federal employees a 3 percent pay raise for 2019.
January 12, 2018 -
The U.S. Border Patrol must recruit and train 2,729 new agents a year for the next five years, in order to meet the administration's hiring goals and keep up with current attrition.
January 09, 2018 -
One of the toughest occupations, from biblical times to present, is being a tax collector, and the new tax rules are going to make things busy and tough for folks at the IRS.
December 21, 2017 -
The big new tax overhaul law that Congress passed this week touches off a gigantic software do-over job for IRS programmers.
December 21, 2017 -
OPM issues new guidance for agencies to comply with the president's executive order rescinding the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations and related forums.
December 14, 2017 -
More than two dozen agencies updated their contingency plans, should Congress not pass a bill to keep the government open past Friday.
December 06, 2017 -
Seven House Democrats and five Republicans are asking President Donald Trump to consider giving all civilian federal employees the same 2.4 percent pay raise that military members are expected to get in 2018.
December 05, 2017 -
October was the unofficial start of the federal buyout system. The catch, this year, is that there are no buyouts, or at least very few.
November 01, 2017 -
The Office of Personnel Management announced the average premium rate increases for 2018 ahead of open season, which runs from Nov. 13 through Dec. 11.
October 04, 2017