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Senators' USPS plan cuts staff, refunds FERS overpayments

Senators announced a bipartisan plan Wednesday to help keep the financially ailing Postal Service solvent while offering incentives to trim its workforce.

Tags: Joe Lieberman , Susan Collins , Tom Carper , Senate , Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee , USPS , pay and benefits , FERS , Emily Kopp

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Top federal manager focused on Navy retention

James VanAntwerp is the winner of the Federal Managers Association's Federal Manager of the year award.

Tags: James VanAntwerp , FMA , management , best practices , In Depth , Navy , DoD

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OPM launches 2011 Open Season webcasts

The Office of Personnel Management debuts a series of webcasts to educate federal employees about the Open Season process.

Tags: OPM , Open Season , pay and benefits , benefits , health care , health benefits ,

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Senators offer plan to keep Postal Service solvent

Tags: Joe Lieberman , Senate , Congress , USPS , pay and benefits

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Air Force to cut hundreds of officers

More than 400 people must leave the Air Force by early 2012, as part of an initiative to trim the military branch's officer cadre. Air Force leaders are also targeting enlisted service members.

Tags: DoD , Air Force , workforce reduction , reductions in force , retention , Mike Dickerson , Ruben Gomez

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Student ambassadors raising interest in federal work

Tim McManus, Vice President for Education and Outreach at Partnership for Public Service, discusses how students are sharing their experience working for government to recruit the next generation of feds.

Tags: Tim McManus , Partnership for Public Service , In Depth , Federal Service Student Ambassadors , hiring

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Sen. Kerry calls for private vendor to manage USAJobs site

Following the troubled launch of the revamped USAJobs.gov, the government's jobs portal, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), is renewing his call for a private contractor to manage the site. He has also asked Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel to investigate and intervene.

Tags: John Kerry , USAJobs.gov , OPM , hiring , Steven VanRoekel

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Does it pay to work?

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 , Federal Report , pay and benefits , retirement , benefits , COLA , Social Security

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OPM: USAJobs glitches stabilized

After a rocky start, the Office of Personnel Management says USAJobs.gov, the federal government's jobs portal, is making progress, citing 1.8 million successful log-ins in the last two weeks.

Tags: Federal Drive , OPM , Matthew Perry , technology , Jack Moore , USAJobs 3.0 , hiring

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OMB employees take a vote on unionization

Office of Management and Budget employees are voting today and Nov. 1 on whether or not they want to be represented by the American Federal of Government Employees union.

Tags: OMB , Tim Kauffman , AFGE , union , pay and benefits , Jolie Lee , Ruben Gomez

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