Management

Senate approves fiscal 2005 budget resolution

Pay & Benefits

Managers who get comp time may not benefit from overtime change

New overtime pay cap rules for high-grade federal employees may actually penalize workers who receive compensation time for their extra hours.

Pay & Benefits

Scrap the System

Seven Democrats call on the Defense department to drop its proposal for overhauling the civilian personnel system and start over.

News

OMB, unions debate costs of competitive sourcing

A federal labor leader charged this week that the Bush administration is attempting to underreport the costs of running public-private job competitions, but an Office of Management and Budget official said the criticism was “misplaced.”