News

How we remember Oklahoma City

Excerpts from an interview with the author of a new book about how the federal community and the nation have responded to the 1995 bombing of the Alfred E. Murrah Federal Building and memorialized its victims.

Pay & Benefits

Pay deadline looms

President Bush has until the end of the day tomorrow to decide what he wants to do about federal employees' pay next year.

Pay & Benefits

OPM enters management reform debate

Office of Personnel Management Director Kay Coles James marked her entrance into the debate over the future of the federal workforce this week.

Defense

Communities ride out base closings

Pay & Benefits

OPM chief blasts General Schedule pay system

The government’s system of classifying and paying workers is outdated and needs reform, Office of Personnel Management Director Kay Coles James said Tuesday.

Pay & Benefits

OPM pushes new kind of buyout

Federal employees could be eligible for $25,000 buyouts--but only if agencies say they don't have the right skills for today's government.