Pay & Benefits

Pay-tience

Federal employees anxious to see that extra 1 percent pay raise must first wait for the gears of government to finish grinding.

News

Federal retirements fall short while hiring booms

Fewer federal employees retired in fiscal 2002 than government officials had predicted, but the government hired more employees than it has in at least the past six years.

Pay & Benefits

New TSP computer system still not ready

Defense

Air Force extends deployments indefinitely

Defense

Reserves strained by war demands, lawmakers say

Members of the National Guard and Reserves—juggling their new missions in the fight against global terrorism and a possible war with Iraq with their traditional duties—could start bailing out unless relief is provided, according to a congressional delegation that recently traveled to Europe.

Tech

Labor Department unveils e-gov projects

Defense

Guarded reservists

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's ideas for moving some skills out of Reserve components and back into active-duty forces has raised some caution flags among reservists.

News

Washington-area agencies dig out, reopen

After two days of closures due to more than a foot of snow that fell over the weekend, the Office of Personnel Management announced Tuesday that federal agencies in the Washington area would reopen Wednesday.

Pay & Benefits

TSP catch-up contributions program to start in July

Federal employees age 50 or older will be able to put extra money in their 401k-style Thrift Savings Plan accounts beginning in July, the board that runs the TSP announced recently.