The Department of Defense recently announced a “deferred resignation program and a voluntary early retirement authority (or ”VERA") for civilian employees — and employees can apply for either starting ...

A federal judge previously blocked AFGE’s initial complaint, saying that the union first needed to go to the Federal Labor Relations Authority over the matter.

In an effort to further shrink the size of its civilian workforce, the Defense Department is reopening the Deferred Resignation Program and offering early retirements or voluntary separations to its ...

The new offers were specific to the wills of each agency and not dictated by the Office of Personnel Management, said an ...