Office of Personnel Management
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In today's Federal Newscast, the Oversight.gov Authorization Act would formally require the upkeep of the website where users can access all public reports released by agency IGs.
October 28, 2020 -
A persistent funding shortfall at the Office of Personnel Management is limiting just about everything the agency does, from processing retirement claims to administering the federal employee health insurance program, according to OPM's acting inspector general.
October 27, 2020 -
The National Treasury Employees Union is suing the Trump administration over the president's recent Schedule F executive order. Three House Democrats introduced new legislation intended to nullify the EO and protect career federal employees impacted by it.
October 27, 2020 -
Ron Sanders, a longtime federal leader and three-year Trump administration appointee, said the president's recent EO would prevent career employees from speaking truth to power. He resigned in protest from his position as chairman of the Federal Salary Council.
October 26, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of Personnel Management is out with preliminary guidance on the president's recent executive order.
October 26, 2020 -
In theory, a Biden administration could, for its own purposes, use the Trump executive order.
October 26, 2020 -
A new executive order from President Donald Trump will reclassify certain current and future positions in the career civil service as a new political class known as "Schedule F."
October 22, 2020 -
Federal health insurance premiums will see a moderate increase next year, but the president's payroll tax deferral makes calculating next year's paycheck all the more tough.
October 19, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Postal Service reports an uptick in mail volume a few weeks ahead of Election Day, but on-time delivery is also on the rise.
October 16, 2020 -
New rules from the Office of Personnel Management, which become final next month, formally implement portions of the president's 2018 executive order on employee firing and discipline.
October 15, 2020 -
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