Defense
Army Reserve and Guard suicide rates more than doubled last year
Active-duty suicides declined slightly from 2009 to 2010.
Oversight
GAO: Army contractors performing inherently governmental functions
Review shows private workers in thousands of jobs designated for federal employees.
Pay & Benefits
Pay freeze could affect employee attrition
Agencies must improve recruiting, training and rewarding of employees, report says.
Oversight
Postal Service seeks efficiency through staff cuts
Agency will eliminate 7,500 jobs and press for changes in pension funding, postmaster general says.
Defense
Military extends health care coverage for adult children
TRICARE will allow unmarried dependents to stay on their family’s insurance plan several years longer.
Pay & Benefits
Refunds and Redeposits
The lowdown on some recent news about service credit payments and retirement contributions.
Pay & Benefits
Federal workers’ compensation payments called wasteful
Sen. Susan Collins requests GAO probe of reports that retirees in their 90s continue collecting under the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act.
Oversight
Union: Rising costs built into $1.2 billion Marine Corps food contract
Documents surface as France-based Sodexo awaits outcome of bid to renew agreement.
Pay & Benefits
On Defense
As Congress returns, federal unions gear up for a fight over employee pay and benefits.
Defense
From Nextgov.com: Navy aims to limit use of Social Security numbers
As it awaits Defense guidance, the service tries to better safeguard personal information.
Oversight
Former Park Police chief reinstated
After a long legal battle, Teresa Chambers is eager to get back to work.
Oversight
NSPS employees can expect 2.26 percent pay boost
Workers also will be eligible for performance-based raises up to a salary cap of $155,500.
Oversight
Lawmaker revives proposal to cut jobs, extend pay freeze
Bill supports deficit commission recommendations to reduce the federal workforce and to hold salaries level for three years.
Oversight
Postal Service will cut more of its workforce
After eliminating senior positions, USPS will begin early retirement and personnel reduction.
Pay & Benefits
Defense proposal would raise long-steady TRICARE fees
Savings also are possible through civilian pay and hiring freezes, Gates says.
Pay & Benefits
Proposal continues crackdown on recruitment and other bonuses
Draft regulations are designed to help agencies spend wisely on payments to attract and keep candidates for hard-to-fill positions.
Pay & Benefits
The Index: 2011 Edition
Your annual guide to the critical retirement information covered in this column.
Pay & Benefits
Analysis: Pay reform at the crossroads
The next two years are the ideal time to introduce more performance-based factors in the General Schedule system, drawing on 30 years of research and experience.
Pay & Benefits
Memo clarifies status of federal interns during program overhaul
Most existing hiring tools will remain at agencies’ disposal until officials finalize new policies.
Pay & Benefits