Federal-Postal Coalition

2020 already? Lawmakers propose 3.6 percent federal pay raise

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) have reintroduced the Federal Adjustment of Income Rates (FAIR) Act, which give federal employees…

Pay

Coalition of fed groups plead with White House to end shutdown

Federal Newscast

Now in a new Congress, lawmakers reintroduce back pay legislation for feds during shutdown

Government Shutdown

Susan Prendergast, reference supervisor at the Eudora Welty Library, in Jackson, Miss., adds additional federal tax filing information booklets on a shelf. The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, issued an online calculator for figuring whether money is being set aside, to avoid facing a huge tax bill for 2018.

Tax act having unintended consequences for feds who relocate for work

100 House Democrats voice opposition to Trump’s proposed federal retirement cuts

Congress

Ret. Gen. Michael Hayden: What are the cyber attackers really after?

Alan Lopatin: Data breach victims need more protection

House, Senate bills push for 3.8 percent federal pay raise

Congress

Families wait for final rule granting flags for feds killed in line of duty

Workforce

Senators propose 3.3 percent federal pay hike to start in 2015

Congress

Janet Kopenhaver, Federally Employed Women

The Federal-Postal Coalition is launching a campaign to attract new federal employees that are still in elementary school. Janet Kopenhaver, the Washington…

Fed groups: Pay and benefits should be off the table in budget talks

A coalition of more than two dozen federal-employee unions and advocacy groups is calling on budget negotiators to come up with a way to undo the across-the-board…

Budget

In deficit talks, fed groups fear alternatives could cut benefits

Many in government are worried about the threat of sequestration, the across-the-board budget cuts set to take effect in January unless Congress and the White come up with an alternative deficit-cutting plan. But federal employee groups and sympathetic lawmakers are also concerned about such alternatives — if they contain changes to federal employee pay or compensation. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and a slate of federal-employee unions and groups are warning of such proposals in the deficit talks…