Defense
House panel backs retirement benefits boost for border officers
Bill also limits funding for new DHS personnel system.
Pay & Benefits
To-Do List
A guide to forms you should gather and things you should do before and after your retirement date.
Pay & Benefits
Execs' association calls for pay reform, more career positions
Leaders lay out comprehensive agenda for the next administration.
Pay & Benefits
Frankenstein's System
The federal pay structure is like a monster, with a torso drawn from the General Schedule and performance-based extremities tacked on.
Pay & Benefits
Agencies urged to hire ex-offenders
People with criminal records could help fill future staff shortages, House panel says.
Oversight
From Nextgov.com: GSA signs telework agreement with union
AFGE officials agree to provisions that abruptly ended telework talks with another federal union.
Defense
Bush: Troops could miss paychecks, civilians could be laid off
Congress must pass war supplemental funding measure to keep Defense operations going, White House says.
Pay & Benefits
Labor relations observers say government unions can be innovators
But high pension costs and acrimonious debate can damage relationships between public sector employees and management.
Oversight
Storms test GSA’s continuity plans
Power outage at Northern Virginia facility allows agency to launch notification system and telework arrangements.
Pay & Benefits
Telework negotiations break down between union and GSA
Dispute over disciplinary provision and elimination of employee reimbursements ends in stalemate.
Defense
Union calls for investigation into TSA turnover
The attrition rate for employees covered under the security agency’s new pay-for-performance system was 21 percent in fiscal 2007.
Pay & Benefits
The Benefits of Social Security
What you, your spouse and your children are entitled to.
Pay & Benefits
Monster launches new hiring software tool tailored to federal agencies
Program will take agencies and applicants from job posting through the first day.
Pay & Benefits
Home Sweet Home
House approves bill to expand telework opportunities across government.
Pay & Benefits
Supreme Court and EEOC grapple with age discrimination questions
Court expands federal employee rights in retaliation cases; proposed rule could make discrimination tougher to prove.
Oversight
House passes SES diversity legislation
Bill creates an office within OPM that will collect data about senior executives.
Pay & Benefits
House passes bill encouraging telework
Bill would require agency heads to allow qualified employees to work outside the office at least 20 percent of their hours in a two-week period.
Pay & Benefits
Proposal would give agencies more flexibility in processing EEO complaints
Commission votes to allow agency pilot projects to find ways to improve process.
Pay & Benefits
TSP’s market funds bloom in May
Small and common stocks post the largest gains for the month.
Oversight