Pay & Benefits
Intelligent Design
Federal agencies could learn from the intelligence community’s approach to employee benefits programs.
Defense
State urged to step up passport fraud defenses
Department is moving in the right direction, but needs better training and preventative measures, auditors say.
Defense
Union challenges decision to outsource hundreds of jobs at West Point
AFGE and New York lawmakers claim the public-private competition was conducted unfairly.
Oversight
Watchdog agency calls for 3.5 percent increase in staff
Personnel shortages delayed 21 percent of GAO investigations in fiscal 2008.
Pay & Benefits
Pay for performance debate centers on incentives
Labor leaders say existing General Schedule System provides a variety of ways of rewarding performance.
Oversight
Obama executive order limits contractors' hiring options
A little-noticed directive requires service providers that win follow-on contracts to offer jobs to nonmanagerial employees at the previous company.
Oversight
USDA touts success with intern program
Department has created a pipeline for Hispanic interns to become permanent federal employees.
Pay & Benefits
Understanding Social Security
Answers to some basic questions about how the system works for federal retirees.
Defense
From Nextgov.com: Obama backs joint VA-Defense electronic health records
Two departments have been working on and off for decades on common standards .
Pay & Benefits
Intelligence community defends pay-for-performance expansion
Human capital chief Ron Sanders says workforce and pay models are different from those operating under the Defense personnel system.
Pay & Benefits
Retirement Plans
Readers submit their questions about proposed changes to federal retirement rules.
Defense
Boosting Defense acquisition workforce could be tricky
The Pentagon will have to compete with other government agencies and private companies for talent.
Pay & Benefits
Pay-for-performance faces new scrutiny
One agency plans to test a new system even in the face of opposition to the concept from lawmakers and employee groups.
Pay & Benefits
Good government group criticizes agencies’ use of internships
Government hires a lower percentage of former interns for full-time jobs than the private sector, study shows.
Oversight
Bill would provide steady funding and staff for executive boards
Regional organizations currently rely on voluntary contributions from agencies.
Oversight
Senate confirms John Berry as federal personnel chief
Former National Zoo director says he is amenable to any effective compensation system for federal employees, including pay for performance.
Defense
House and Senate call for pay parity
Both versions of the fiscal 2010 budget resolution contain provisions backing equal pay boosts for military and civilian workers.
Pay & Benefits
No Fooling
This week, the House really did approve some long-awaited retirement provisions.
Oversight
From Nextgov.com: Eight years in the making, VA patient scheduling system founders
Congressman calls hearing to look into failures with $167 million IT project.
Pay & Benefits