Office of Personnel Management
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The Trump administration will add Des Moines, Iowa, to its list of locality pay areas, bringing the total to 54. Adding a locality pay area will directly impact 3,100 federal employees, but the move could also have broader effects on the rest of the federal workforce, the Office of Personnel Management said.
October 14, 2020 -
Participants in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) can expect to pay, on average, 4.9% more for their health insurance in 2021. Participants may pay more or less depending on the options they choose.
October 14, 2020 -
Choosing when to retire is never an easy decision, and the pandemic (during an election year) isn't helping feds either.
October 12, 2020 -
New proposed regulations from OPM reinterpret the agency's own 40-year-old reading of the Back Pay Act, and would limit the kinds of cases where federal employees could receive back pay, as well as exclude unions from receiving attorney fees.
October 07, 2020 -
In a moment of reinvention in the federal workforce, the coronavirus pandemic has opened the door to improving how agencies recruit and retain employees with disabilities.
October 07, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of Personnel Management wants to change how and when federal employees might receive back pay for an unjustified or unwarranted personnel action.
October 07, 2020 -
New federal retirement claims held largely steady in September, though they were still below their levels a year ago.
October 07, 2020 -
The Federal Labor Relations Authority issued three recent decisions on behalf of three separate departments, all of which will likely give agencies more power at the collective bargaining table.
October 06, 2020 -
Federal D&I training needs a more methodical examination for fairness and effectiveness.
October 06, 2020 -
A new draft policy from the Office of Personnel Management reveals what jobs are common in the federal workforce and the qualifications currently needed to hold those positions.
October 05, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Congress makes another push to allow federal employees and military members to opt-out of the president's payroll tax deferral.
October 05, 2020 -
At least 9,000 fewer federal employees have retired this year since the start of the pandemic compared to the same six-month period in 2019. Federal financial planners say the pandemic is partly to blame.
October 05, 2020 -
To implement the president's recent executive order on diversity and inclusion training, the Office of Personnel Management is effectively pausing such agency programs for all federal employees.
October 02, 2020 -
Many agencies were already envisioning a performance management shift before the pandemic, but the virtual workplace is accelerating broader changes to the way managers set organizational goals and hold their employees accountable.
September 29, 2020 -
Multiple sources confirm President Donald Trump plans to name Basil Parker as the new federal chief information officer and Camilo Sandoval as the new federal chief information security officer.
September 28, 2020