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Buyouts gaining steam — be ready
Reading about buyouts is as exciting and unrewarding as hearing about million-dollar lottery winners, unless you find out you may have one of the winning tickets, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , buyouts , retirement , workforce , GSA , Air Force , IRS
Uncle Sam's PMS: What's next?
If you are a government worker you know first hand what PMS is, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. Now we've devised a test to see if maybe, just maybe, you know too much and have been in government too long. Check it out, if you dare.
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , workforce , SES , Carol Bonosaro
Is your job on the chopping block?
More than 320,000 government jobs disappeared over the last two years and while that's a lot, it is relatively good news for people who work for IRS, Defense, the VA and other federal operations, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , retirement , workforce , retention , Challenger, Gray and Christmas
Perfect storm: Your buyout lifeboat
That wave you see out there just could be the long-anticipated retirement tsunami, and if coupled with expanded buyout offers it could create the perfect storm, Senor Correspondent Mike Causey says. So, is your lifeboat ready?
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , retirement , buyouts , David Snell , NARFE , Federal Times
Holiday workers: Having the right stuff
What kind of people worked during the dead-zone period between Christmas and New Year's? their reasons and motives might surprise you, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , pay , benefits , retirement , workforce
January jumpers: Why some feds are retiring now
When they take the plunge into retirement, about half of all federal and postal workers do it in December or January, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. So is that a quirk of the calendar, or something else.
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , Congress , workforce , hiring , retirement , benefits
Survivor: Endangered feds
For most of 2011, it looked as if federal workers were about to be bent, folded, stapled or otherwise mutilated by politicians. After the dust settled, the government is still with us. How come?
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , workforce , Congress
The Best of Mike Causey 2011
What were the most popular Mike Causey columns from this year? Here they are listed for you!
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , 2011 and Beyond
Are feds prepared to shovel it?
When it comes to shoveling it, official Washington is years ahead of anybody else. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says this applies to snow-day policy matters too.
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , management , OPM , snow policy
To COLA or not to COLA...
Are you better off financially slogging it to work or sleeping in five days a week? Some people say that all things considered they would be better off as a retiree than as an office serf. So do the math, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , COLA , benefits , retirement
