Federal workers compensation laws are administered by the Department of Labor's Office of Worker's Compensation Programs. The four major federal programs are the Federal Employee's Compensation ...

Read the full text of this working paper as a PDF. Public sector compensation has come under increased scrutiny from politicians and the media, but comprehensive technical comparisons of federal and ...

The 800,000 or so federal civilian employees who spent five weeks either furloughed or working without pay have all since received their pay for the government shutdown period. Despite this, some ...

If passed by the Senate, this bill expands the role of NPs and PAs by allowing them to provide services to injured federal workers under the federal workers’ compensation program. The US House of ...

The average federal employee earns 57 percent greater cash pay and 85 percent greater total compensation (which includes benefits) than the average private-sector worker. This is an apples-to-oranges ...

Nearly 3,500 federal workers will receive injury compensation benefits from the US government after they contracted COVID-19 at work, the Department of Labor announced Friday. In an email to the ...

The Trump administration’s new management agenda, released earlier this week, has significant implications for federal pay and benefits. The agenda frames the issue by noting that “it is important to ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with ...