Oversight
Senate sends 13 nominations back to White House
Nominees, including Medicare chief and Customs and Border Protection commissioner, will have to be sent to the Hill again.
Pay & Benefits
VA health care workers move a step closer to bargaining over pay issues
Senate panel passes a measure that would expand employees’ negotiating rights to include compensation policies.
Pay & Benefits
Checks and Balances
Controversy is simmering over distribution of life insurance benefits via "checkbooks."
Oversight
GAO rejects union’s privatization protest
Decision clears way for a contractor to assume control of food service at six Air Force bases.
Oversight
USPS posts $3.5 billion third quarter loss
Workforce cuts and push for fewer delivery days will continue, officials say.
Oversight
Mistaken disability payments might have allowed feds to double-dip
Watchdog finds 1,500 employees likely received improper benefits on top of a salary; SSA chief says report is inflammatory.
Pay & Benefits
Freeze on bonuses could have trickledown effect
Senior executives group worries political appointees could get stingier with awards to career employees.
Pay & Benefits
Obama orders freeze on appointee bonuses
President also backs appointee salary freeze next year.
Oversight
Union praises workforce provisions in appropriations bill
Measures seek to ensure federal employees perform jobs closely associated with inherently governmental functions.
Oversight
Lawmaker proposes alternative mail delivery schedule
Postal Service says legislation does not go far enough to save money.
Oversight
Postal Service announces hiring freeze
Agency will halt hiring and promotions for foreseeable future, official says.
Oversight
Lawmakers seek to update jobs program for blind and disabled
Bipartisan legislation would change AbilityOne oversight and regulations, and provide additional resources.
Pay & Benefits
Retirement funds bounce back in July
TSP investment options recover from dismal performances in May and June.
Pay & Benefits
TSP launches automatic enrollment for new hires
Three percent of basic pay will go to G Fund.
Defense
Reservists boost Coast Guard's efforts to clean up Gulf
The agency's response to the oil spill is unprecedented.
Oversight
Panels vote to maintain six-day postal delivery schedule
The full House and Senate must approve spending bills to take reduced schedule off the table for fiscal 2011.
Pay & Benefits
From Military to Civilian
A look at options for those who started in the armed forces and ended their careers in the civil service.
Defense
Army suicide report raises concerns about drug abuse
There is a clear link between risky behaviors and soldiers taking their own lives, researchers find after a 15-month study.
Oversight