Author: Eric Yoder

Washington Post – Politics:

The House GOP rules package includes a provision allowing lawmakers to eliminate federal agency programs and to target the salaries of individual employees.

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The average 4.6 percent salary boost Jan. 1 to the nearly 2.2 million executive branch employees will be the largest in two decades.

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Premiums in the health-care program for federal employees and retirees will increase by 8.7 percent on average for 2023 — the largest increase in more than a decade.

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“Pay gap” between federal employees and comparable private sector workers has stayed about steady over the two years since the last assessment by the Federal Salary Council.

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A study finds federal employees less satisfied with their jobs ]and less engaged with their work despite the change to the avowedly pro-employee Biden administration.

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Lawmakers are demanding answers as federal workers and retirees report widespread problems with a new operating platform for their retirement savings program.

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The Thrift Savings Plan will open a long-planned mutual fund “window” June 1, allowing for targeted investing in stock, bond, commodities and other markets in addition to the index-based funds the TSP itself offers.

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The vote on Susan Tsui Grundmann for a seat on the Federal Labor Relations Authority has been a priority for federal-worker unions, which have been waiting for a Democratic majority to reverse a number of Trump-era decisions.

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The White House told federal agencies on Thursday to hold off on reinstating a coronavirus vaccination mandate for millions of employees, hours after an appeals court rejected an earlier injunction that had blocked the executive order.