Pay & Benefits
Legislation modifying federal retirement rules advances
Provisions would make it easier for retirees to cash out unused sick leave and return to government service.
Pay & Benefits
OPM authorizes streamlined hiring for stimulus efforts
Agencies will be able to use excepted service appointments to bring on new employees temporarily for economic recovery projects.
Oversight
Union lawyer appointed OPM general counsel
Elaine Kaplan also is a former special counsel.
Oversight
Obama charts path on food safety
President announces interagency working group and says funds will go toward increasing the number of food inspectors.
Pay & Benefits
Pentagon suspends NSPS conversions
Defense and OPM will conduct a joint review of the pay-for-performance system.
Pay & Benefits
Obama team looks to federal employee health program as a model
Senior adviser says FEHBP flexibility and efficiency are laudable.
Pay & Benefits
TSP participation holds steady amid economic downturn
Rate of participation stands at 84 percent, say plan officials.
Pay & Benefits
Efforts to grant feds domestic partner benefits gain momentum
Upcoming legislation and recent court orders could force OPM to change its policies.
Pay & Benefits
Spousal Provision
A different take on the debate over life insurance vs. the federal survivor benefit.
Pay & Benefits
Virginia lawmaker calls for pay parity
Rep. Gerry Connolly personally delivers a letter to President Obama supporting equal pay raises for service members and civilian employees.
Pay & Benefits
Report touts intelligence personnel reforms as a model
Spy agencies have reconciled their individual needs with those of the community.
Oversight
House lawmakers reintroduce bill to protect federal whistleblowers
Legislation is necessary as the government seeks to ensure proper oversight of economic stimulus funds, representatives say.
Pay & Benefits
TARP staffing continues to increase
But Treasury has no long-term workforce plan for the financial bailout, GAO says.
Pay & Benefits
Union continues campaign against career intern program
The hiring authority undermines veterans preference and limits opportunities for promotions, NTEU President Colleen Kelley argues.
Pay & Benefits
OPM offers training to agencies involved in stimulus efforts
Initiative aims to help government boost hiring without sacrificing merit principles.
Pay & Benefits
Freefalling FERS?
A response to reader concerns about looming retirements under the Federal Employees Retirement System.
Oversight
Advocates say DHS managers, rank-and-file are dissatisfied with personnel policies
Senior executives are leaving Homeland Security because of inequities in the pay-for-performance system and few opportunities for advancement, say witnesses at a House hearing.
Pay & Benefits
OPM delays implementing new promotion rules
Regulations that would expedite promotions for feds now will take effect on May 18.
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