Familiar Process ahead for Employees if Shutdown Happens Source: Fedweek If a shutdown seems imminent, OMB issues a memo to affected agencies telling them to put their contingency plan into effect. Agency-by-agency and government-wide policies have remained largely unchanged for many years and the results will be familiar for employees if a funding lapse occurs and […]
Trump’s Second-Term Agenda: Breaking The Bureaucracy If elected this fall, Donald Trump’s return to Washington would promise a more aggressive—and plausible—campaign to hobble unions, politicize the nonpartisan civil service and remake the federal government in the Republican’s image. Follow link to read more from Government Executive. https://bit.ly/3ZnPU1n
GSA’s Coworking Pilot Could Help Better Plan the Future Of Work, But First, it Needs to Define Long-Term Success With about half of its leased office space set to expire in the next five years, the General Services Administration is wagering that workspaces shared by multiple agencies could be how federal employees return to the […]
Zero Percent Return for the C Fund Over the Next 10 Years?! The underlying index for the C fund within TSP is the S&P 500 Index. Is the S&P 500 currently over valued? If so, what does that mean for potential C fund performance, and what does the work of Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller indicate? […]
Lawmakers File Discharge Petition to Repeal Controversial Tax Rule Affecting Federal Retirees The Social Security Fairness Act has broad bipartisan support both in Congress and among federal employee unions. A bipartisan pair of lawmakers on Tuesday filed a discharge petition seeking to force a vote on the House floor on a measure that would eliminate […]