Oversight
Top jobs at agencies remain unfilled as transition looms
The latest Plum Book includes five vacancies among the positions listed at the Office of Personnel Management.
Pay & Benefits
Rule change paves way for quicker promotions
Agency says eliminating time-in-grade requirement will help government officials recruit and retain highly qualified workers.
Pay & Benefits
OPM: Veterans’ ranks in federal workforce grow
But study shows the group is slightly underrepresented in overall promotions.
Pay & Benefits
Foreign Service officers clamor for security clearance reform
Wish list of diplomatic community also includes pleas for more staff and training.
Pay & Benefits
Employee groups lay out priorities for next president, Congress
Organizations will continue to fight the Pentagon’s pay overhaul and will push benefits bills, including one to increase the government’s share of health premiums.
Defense
Union hardens its stance on Pentagon personnel system
AFGE claims new rules restrict collective bargaining.
Pay & Benefits
Obama win reignites push to organize airport screeners
Federal unions hope Democratic leadership will open door to collective bargaining rights for Transportation Security Administration employees.
Pay & Benefits
Agencies improve online training systems
Rapid advances in technology expand range of available functions and courses.
Pay & Benefits
TSP funds continue to slide in October
Small cap and international stock funds hit hardest.
Pay & Benefits
Feds denied extra hours off to vote
The Office of Personnel Management says agencies already have authority to adjust excused absence policies.
Oversight
Senate oversight committee could get a post-election face-lift
Lieberman has a tenuous hold on the chairmanship, and six of the committee’s eight Republican members are retiring or up for reelection.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers push to give feds an extra two hours off to vote
Traffic, heavy voter turnout, and changes in federal and state election laws could cause delays at polls, two Virginia congressmen say.
Pay & Benefits
Bidding opens on 2010 pay raise at 2.9 percent
Change in Employment Cost Index has become the de facto baseline for recommended average federal salary increases.
Pay & Benefits
High Interest
Responses to your questions and comments about high-deductible health plans.
Pay & Benefits
Sick Leave Slowdown
Legislation allowing more federal employees to cash out accrued sick leave at retirement isn't dead yet.
Oversight
From Nextgov.com: VA hires Navy to build claims processing system
Lack of in-house expertise and pressure from veterans group and union leads department to forgo hiring a contractor .
Pay & Benefits
Agencies strive to tap talent of disabled employees
Government attempts to reverse an embarrassing decline in the portion of the federal workforce that is disabled.
Pay & Benefits