The Department of Homeland Security has created the DHS Cybersecurity Service, a new way to hire and manage cybersecurity professionals outside of traditional civil service requirements. DHS announced ...

The Social Security Administration is denying its employees working amid the ongoing government shutdown access to days off and other workplace flexibilities, even as some struggle to afford their ...

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Fertility benefits can be offered as excepted benefits — those not subject to Affordable Care Act requirements — under two of the four designations: independent, noncoordinated excepted benefits and ...

The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury recently issued proposed regulations that expand and clarify the categories of benefits that qualify as excepted benefits.

Section 1. Purpose. The Congress has recognized that effective Government administration requires excepting some positions from the competitive service based on their confidential, policy-determining, ...

A federal court has ruled that veterans' preference rights must be applied in the same way for both competitive and excepted service positions, but declined to address larger questions about the ...

Three developments in the second week in February, 2015, remind us that implementation of the Affordable Care Act is a multi-department effort. The first of these is a new guidance on "excepted ...

Excepted-benefits health plans provide typically tax-exempt reimbursement to select employees and their eligible dependents for virtually all medical costs not covered by their primary health plans.