By FEND Staff
The White House will end a long-lived Forest Service program—one that has helped train a reported 3,000-plus young people a year and maintained over 1,100 employees.
By Nathan Abse
This week, FEND’s Nathan Abse speaks with Peter W. Philips, a labor economist and compensation expert on the faculty at the University of Utah. Philips discusses the federal pay raise proposal—but more generally on compensation trends and the macro trends affecting them.
By FEND Staff
The National Treasury Employees Union has gotten behind an appropriations bill measure to surge hiring at Customs and Border Protection.
By FEND Staff
Thrift Savings Share Prices as of June 6, 2019.
By FEND Staff
The Senior Executives Association has announced a new partnership with a private talent exchange that aims to “create an agile and highly effective 21st-century workforce."
By Edward A. Zurndorfer
Employees have choices with respect to contributing to the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). They can contribute to the traditional TSP and/or to the Roth TSP. In the first of two columns discussing which TSP account is better for employees, this week’s column suggests that employees look at their 2018 federal income tax return in determining how much they should contribute to the traditional TSP.
By FEND Staff
A bipartisan piece of legislation has been introduced that would ban all federal employees from flying first-class or business-class while traveling for work.
By FEND Staff
True innovation takes a lot — new technologies, strong leadership, talented industry partners and, of course, individual change agents.
By Mike Causey
Question: Would you invest/bet your retirement nest egg on a climate-friendly startup company who’s CEO is convinced that in a short-time most of us will be wearing shoes made out of recycled Mississippi River mud?