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Some federal employees who have been allowed to work fully remotely say that forcing them to come back to the office would upend their lives – and not necessarily save the government as much ...
The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal workers’ union with more than 800,000 members in nearly every agency in the federal and District of Columbia governments ...
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. He recently said that if federal employees don't show up to work in ...
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the country's largest labor union for federal employees, is fighting back against GOP criticisms that government employees are abusing the ...
Employees hired after 1983 are required to be covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), which is a three tiered retirement system with a smaller defined benefit (pension), Social Security, and a 401(k)-style system called the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The defined benefits of both the CSRS and the FERS systems are paid out of ...
Remote work may make it easier for workers to balance their work responsibilities with their personal life and family roles such as caring for children or elderly parents. Remote work improves efficiency by reducing travel time, and reduces commuting time and time stuck in traffic congestion, improving quality of life. [58] [63]
Generally, an employee has the right to determine his/her "date of final separation" (i.e. the last day on the payroll; it does not have to be the final working day in a pay period [12]); the following day is the employee's retirement date. The annuity does not begin until one full calendar month has passed since the employee's retirement. Thus ...
A particularly vocal advocate of DOGE is Joni Ernst, the Republican senator from Iowa, whose office released a 60-page report decrying the prevalence of remote work in government jobs.