Pay & Benefits

House passes pay-for-performance measure

When House lawmakers passed the fiscal 2004 Defense authorization bill, they included a $500 million fund managers can use to bump up the salaries of high-performing employees.

Pay & Benefits

Anticipay-tion

Employees at many agencies will have to wait to take advantage of one new benefit, but another is on its way.

Defense

House GOP blocks effort to scale back Defense personnel overhaul

House Republicans this week blocked Democrats’ efforts to rein in a proposal to let the Defense Department overhaul its civilian personnel system.

Management

OMB chief: Management agenda needs ‘relentless follow-up’

Outgoing Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels' advice on management matters for his successor.

Management

Bush nominates new OMB director

President Bush on Thursday announced plans to nominate one of the White House’s deputy chiefs of staff to be the next Office of Management and Budget director.

Management

White House opposes pay parity, job competition restrictions

The Bush administration announced Thursday that it opposes language in a House bill calling for military-civilian pay parity, and objects to an effort to prohibit the use of goals for putting Defense Department jobs up for competition with the private sector.

Management

OMB sets new targets for management agenda

In a major shift in how the White House is pursuing its government reform effort, Bush administration officials have set a deadline of July 1, 2004, for agencies to meet new performance targets.