OPM moves to standardize General Schedule, blue collar locality pay areas For years, federal employee unions have bemoaned that the pay systems’ differing maps of high-cost regions created pay inequity within agency workforces. By Erich Wagner October 7, 2024 OPM’s retirement backlog continued...
Unlike the FEHB program in which the federal government pays on average 72 to 75 percent of an employee’s or retiree’s FEHB program premiums, employees and retirees pay the full cost of the FEDVIP premiums. Those employees and retirees who are enrolled in a FEDVIP plan for 2024 will aut...
OPM Issues Guidance on Telework, Pay and Travel As Feds Return to Offices The 38-page document assists agencies with short- and long-term planning. ByCourtney Bublé July 26, 2021 OPM Makes Acting CIO Permanent Guy Cavallo, who has been serving in an acting capacity since March, launched a...
Published: February 20, 2024More in: Fedweek OPM also put additional emphasis on the responsibilities of carriers to identify and weed out ineligible persons being covered as family members. Image: Mariusz S. Jurgielewicz/Shutterstock.com By: FEDweek Staff OPM has issued its annual “call ...
By:FEDweek Staff Following is the section of an OPM guide to the now-ongoing open season, running through December 9, addressing areas of expanded coverage for 2025 in the FEHB program and the new PSHB program. For the 2025 Plan Year, OPM is pleased to continue to promote benefit offering...
Fed Cir.: Wilson v. MSPB .. Ms. Wilson was employed by the VA as a Program Support Clerk with the Veterans Health Administration in Cleveland, Ohio starting in May 2022, and her employment was subject to a two-year probationary period. During her employment, Ms. Wilson sought to apply ...
By:FEDweek Staff Following is a letter from House Oversight and Accountability chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., to acting OPM director Rob Shriver on the implications to that agency of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision lowering the standard of deference that federal courts apply ...
Pay Gap Increases; New, Expanded Localities Again Recommended Early Marker for 2024 Raise Set: 5.2 Percent Pay Attention to Family vs. Self Plus One Rates in FEHB, OPM Advises TSP Investors Down $120 Billion for Year; Average Account Loses $30,000 ...