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WASHINGTON – Federal employees and retirees on average will pay 12.3 percent more for health insurance next year, creating additional financial hardship for a federal workforce already struggling with missed paychecks during a government shutdown, stagnant wages, additional layoff threats and attacks on their union rights.   The Office of Personnel Management ...

WASHINGTON—Every community in America will feel the harsh economic impact of a government shutdown when thousands of their neighbors start missing paychecks and stop spending money. Starting today, frontline federal employees across the country will be locked out of work or required to stay on the job without any guarantee that their next paycheck will arrive ...

Instead of the parties working together, we face another potential government shutdown. This is politics at its worse, using the federal budget as a game of chicken with federal employees as the collateral damage. Again. And this time even more so with the Administration’s latest illegal threat of mass layoffs if the government shuts down. This needs to ...

The order instructs agency leadership to identify which jobs should be placed into the new Schedule Policy/Career category, including those jobs that are considered to have a “policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character.” Just hours after the executive order was signed, NTEU filed a lawsuit to block it. The case is pending in U.S. ...