Pay & Benefits
Navy investigates misuse of comp time, leave rules
Two top executives at a Navy facility in Rhode Island have been suspended amid an investigation into employee misuse of compensatory time and leave rules at a 50,000-worker Navy command.
Management
Erroneous payments cost government $20 billion in 2001
The federal government made $20 billion in erroneous payments in fiscal 2001, the Office of Management and Budget said Friday in a report to Congress outlining the poor state of financial management in the government.
Pay & Benefits
Retention tension
The Bush administration has squashed a plan to let federal agencies use retention allowances to stop other agencies from hiring away their employees.
Defense
Ridge: Bush should veto Cabinet-level homeland security office
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Thursday he would advise President Bush to veto any legislation creating a congressionally authorized Office of Homeland Security if Congress approves a bill this year.
Management