Oversight
Lawmakers push potty parity
New legislation requires an equal number of male and female toilets in federal buildings.
Defense
Committee approves three veterans bills
Bills range from therapeutic companion dogs to chiropractors for injured or emotionally troubled vets.
Defense
House panel boosts military pay raise
Increase of half a percentage point over administration request comes just days after Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked Congress to hold the line on raises.
Oversight
Private employees face barriers entering the federal workforce, observers say
Most external applicants don’t understand how to navigate the government’s complicated hiring process.
Pay & Benefits
Essay-based job applications are on the way out
As expected, President Obama instructs agency heads to abandon KSAs in favor of résumés.
Pay & Benefits
Administration to announce hiring overhaul Tuesday
Agencies likely will be required to dispense with knowledge, skills and abilities statements by November.
Oversight
Secretary of State lauds high-performing senior executives
Hillary Rodham Clinton calls Distinguished Rank Award winners ‘the backbone, the nervous system, the intelligence of our government.’
Pay & Benefits
Question Time
Answers to recent reader queries on subjects ranging from annual leave credit to picking the best date to retire.
Pay & Benefits
Public Service Recognition Week winds down
Annual celebration acknowledges government workers and highlights their work.
Pay & Benefits
First lady applauds USAID employees
Michelle Obama thanks development workers for their efforts in Haiti and Afghanistan this year.
Pay & Benefits
Telework bill comes up short in the House
Supporters fail to get two-thirds majority necessary to pass legislation under suspension of the rules.
Pay & Benefits
TRICARE Triage
The Pentagon is looking for ways to nurse its insurance program back to better financial health, but one proposal already has critics.
Oversight
Labor-management council delays reporting on bargaining expansion
OPM Director John Berry requests an extra 30 days to provide recommendations to White House on pilot programs.
Pay & Benefits
House debates telework legislation
Bill would guarantee that eligible employees could work outside the office at least 20 percent of the time.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers honor outstanding feds on Capitol Hill
Many of the 2010 Service to America finalists work in the health, science or security field.
Oversight
Lawmakers sponsor bill to allow earlier FEHBP enrollment for adult kids
Legislation would extend coverage to unmarried dependents during 2010.
Pay & Benefits
Workplace flexibility program moves full-speed ahead
Participants will work wherever and whenever they want, starting in June.
Defense
Industry officials criticize ‘quota-driven’ Defense insourcing
Contractor trade group, labor union, express concern about Pentagon plan to move thousands of jobs in-house.
Pay & Benefits
Personnel agency clarifies policies for insuring adult children
New cutoff age only takes effect on Jan. 1, 2011, but dependents who turn 22 before that can purchase a temporary continuation of health coverage.
Pay & Benefits