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Furloughs: Vacation or hard time?
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey asks: If furloughs come to your agency, will you treat them like a surprise budget vacation, or would that 20 percent per week pay cut put you under water? And is there a place where you can get an emergency, no-interest loan?
Tags: Federal Report , workforce , sequestration , furloughs
Furloughs and your boss
Carol Bonosaro from the Senior Executives Association and Stephen Losey from the Federal Times talk about how sequestration, furloughs, and other issues will affect the federal worker.
March 6, 2013
Tags: pay and benefits , sequestration , furloughs , Carol Bonasaro , Senior Executives Assocation , federal managers , budget battle , Federal Times , Stephen Losey , pay freeze , government shutdown , Your Turn
Sequestration causes rare March blizzard?
In 18th century Paris, the people demanded Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. In 21st century Washington, when a snowstorm approaches, the battle cry is white bread, milk and toilet paper, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: Federal Report , workforce , snow
Federal News Radio's Match Game 1500
Jenny Mattingley, director of government affairs with Shaw Bransford and Roth and Rob Burton, partner at the Venable law firm and former acting administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy try to match answers with a panel of Federal News Radio personalities in Federal News Radio's version of the game-show classic.
Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , Match Game , Julia Ziegler , Tom Temin , Jason Miller
Furloughing the money-makers
If somebody guaranteed you $9 for every dollar you invested, would you take the deal? Most people would, but politicians who designed the sequestration process to save money may find it is also a costly exercise, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: Federal Report , workforce , sequestration , IRS , NTEU , Colleen Kelley
Furloughs and your TSP account
Now that you've been sequestered and set up for possible furloughs, what else could go wrong? A one-day-a-week furlough means a 20 percent pay cut for that week, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey explains. So what is the impact, if any, on your Thrift Savings Plan contributions and the matching contributions you get from your agency?
Tags: TSP , Federal Report , pay and benefits , workforce
Feds at IRS, Social Security, TSA face dangerous heat...
If there is a partial shutdown of government services, now or later, politicians will blame each other. But the big losers will be federal workers in IRS and Social Security offices, and TSA screeners at airports who are going to take the heat, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: Federal Report , sequestration , furloughs
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse...
Sequestration is the worst possible thing that could happen to you as a taxpayer and a federal worker or contractor, right? Wrong. Sequestration would take a big bite out of things but the coming crises over agency budgets could turn out to be much, much worse, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: sequestration , budget , workforce , Federal Report , furloughs
Transition, sequestration, furloughs, and more
Career expert and author John Grobe, Federal News Radio's Julia Ziegler, and Federal Times senior writer Stephen Losey will discuss sequestration and other issues affecting federal workers.
February 27, 2013
Tags: transition plan , John Grobe , Federal Career Experts , pay and benefits , sequestration , Julia Ziegler , Federal Times , budget battle , Stephen Losey , continuing resolution , CR deadline , furloughs , air traffic controllers , FEMA , Your Turn
Some feds have the bawdy house blues
Remember when you got out of school and had to pick a career? Mother wanted you to play piano in a house of ill repute but you rebelled and became a federal civil servant. So in retrospect who was right: you or Mom? Check out Senior Correspondent Mike Causey's column for more.
Tags: Federal Report , sequestration , John Grobe , workforce
