A mandate to limit outstanding performance scores has managers playing a numbers game and risks pitting teammates against ...

In a step officials say is intended to make federal promotions more merit-based, the Office of Personnel Management has ...

Updated: While the greatest focus on federal employee retirement understandably is on age and service combinations needed to be eligible to retire ...

Agencies will soon get leeway to promote federal employees more quickly, after the Office of Personnel Management on Monday finalized regulations to eliminate a longstanding “time-in-grade” ...

Quick ReadElecting the $58,000 single-life FERS pension and buying a $300,000 20-year term policy for ~$3,200 annually nets ...

Musk’s time in the government is coming to a close, but what does that mean for the federal employees who have been fired? Elon Musk’s tenure over DOGE has seen record numbers of federal employees ...

Federal employees 2026 pay hike: President Donald Trump enacted an executive order on December 18 that confirms a 1% salary increase for the majority of federal civilian employees in 2026, ...

After the government officially shut down Oct. 1, some federal employees are still going to work — but they'll have to wait for their next paychecks. The partial shutdown began at midnight after ...

The second Trump administration has had few bright spots, but one stands out: its effort to tame the federal bureaucracy. In the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency, the federal workforce ...

With the federal hiring freeze lifting in mid-July, the Trump administration has rolled out a controversial federal hiring plan that critics warn will politicize and likely slow down the process ...

Mike Zaino, of The Zaino Group, is a Registered Financial Consultant and National Retirement Counselor serving federal and postal employees. If you’re a federal employee, you’ve probably noticed a ...

As part of its effort to downsize the federal workforce in February 2025, the Trump administration conducted a mass firing of thousands of agency employees in their probationary periods, which ...