Pay & Benefits
Best Dates to Retire 2008
Getting down to specifics on how to maximize your benefits if you’re thinking about retiring next year.
Pay & Benefits
House members unveil paid parental leave legislation
New bill would provide eight weeks of paid leave to all federal employees for the birth or adoption of a child.
Pay & Benefits
Playing Up Performance
Pay-for-performance is starting to seem inevitable, but may still be a long ways off.
Pay & Benefits
House appropriators approve 3.5 percent military pay raise
The increase is equal to that recently approved by the House for civilian federal employees.
Oversight
Other countries share U.S. government’s workforce challenges
Officials from five major countries cite two common barriers to improving their workforces: compensation and talent shortages.
Tech
Government job listings may not reach wide enough
Openings posted on centralized government job search site are not typically searchable through popular engines like Google.
Oversight
Panel seeks advice on boosting diversity in senior ranks
Possibilities include training for women and minorities earlier in their careers, inclusion of diversity efforts in performance reviews.
Oversight
Controllers at busiest airports retiring in large numbers
New analysis shows breakdown in contract talks has led to jump in controller retirements.
Oversight
GAO, union reach agreement to hold election
Agency affirms the eligibility of certain employees to organize in exchange for the withdrawal of an unfair labor practice charge.
Oversight
Pay reform, recruiting cited as top personnel challenges
Officials caution against implementing a "one-size-fits-all" approach.
Pay & Benefits
Pushing Parental Leave
The idea of granting paid leave to new parents is gaining traction on Capitol Hill.
Oversight
Court extends deadline for DHS decision on labor rules
Department now has until Jan. 17, 2008, to decide whether it will rewrite or drop proposed rules.
Pay & Benefits
House members weigh alternate paths to TSA bargaining rights
Texas Democrat says if bargaining language doesn’t make it into massive homeland security measure, she may introduce separate legislation.
Pay & Benefits
Report: Defense underestimated cost of personnel overhaul
Some indirect costs, such as those for administrative services, were not taken into account, auditors say.
Oversight
House backs bill to boost hiring for passport processing
Measure would allow State Department to rehire retirees to help with influx of applications.
Pay & Benefits
TSP urges Congress to back two legislative proposals
Plan officials have sent requests for automatic enrollment and a change in the default fund to Capitol Hill, but immediate action is unlikely.
Pay & Benefits
Group proposes scholarships to fill mission-critical jobs
Recipients would be required to work for the government for two years; program would depend on funding from Congress.
Oversight