Defense
Vetoed authorization bill puts military bonuses on hold
Services have come to depend on the incentives to keep monthly recruiting and retention numbers on target.
Oversight
NASA contract employees win injunction against background checks
Federal judge says allowing investigations to continue forces workers to choose their between rights and their jobs.
Defense
Labor Department to fly solo on veterans' employment complaints
Pilot project dividing jurisdiction over federal sector complaints between Labor and Office of Special Counsel ends inconclusively.
Pay & Benefits
Changes for 2008
A look at annual changes in Social Security, Medicare and federal retirement benefits programs.
Pay & Benefits
Career official becomes deputy TSA administrator
Gale Rossides will implement many of the workforce plans she designed as associate administrator.
Pay & Benefits
Honest Evaluations
The key to pay for performance is providing meaningful reviews of employees' work -- and giving them the opportunity to improve.
Pay & Benefits
Panelists debate public service academy proposal
Critics say tax dollars could be more wisely spent on scholarships to service-minded students.
Pay & Benefits
Feds' political contributions increasingly go to Democrats
Political action committees are giving a greater proportion of donations to Democrats than they did in previous two election cycles.
Defense
Union files Supreme Court appeal of NSPS lawsuit
American Federation of Government Employees asks the high court to hear challenge to the Pentagon's proposed labor relations system.
Pay & Benefits
Bush issues order implementing 3.5 percent pay raise
Order specifies that 2.5 percent of the increase should come through base pay, and 1 percent through locality differentials.
Defense
Pentagon follows Congress' lead on NSPS raises
Employees under the Pentagon's new personnel system will receive a 60-40 split between base pay and performance-related increases in 2008.
Pay & Benefits
TSP funds earn modest gains in 2007
International investments outperform other funds for the year.
Defense
New Defense personnel system frees managers
But the ability to link pay raises more closely to job performance and to move employees between jobs comes with a cost.
Pay & Benefits
Extending Benefits
Lawmakers re-launch effort to grant same-sex domestic partner benefits to federal employees; also, OPM makes retirement records electronic.
Oversight
FAA, controllers union to hold second meeting on safety issues
Get-togethers could be sign that relationship between management, union, is improving.
Pay & Benefits
President signs $516 billion omnibus spending bill
Measure includes 3.5 percent pay increase for white-collar federal employees, enhanced benefits.
Oversight