Management
Commerce expands pay-for-performance project
Miami NOAA employees join union expressly to participate in new system.
Pay & Benefits
Tax Changes: Part Two
The second in a two-part series on recent changes in tax laws that could affect your retirement plans.
Pay & Benefits
Ready, Really?
Federal employees think they’re financially prepared for retirement, but a deeper look shows otherwise.
Tech
Bush orders health agencies to standardize IT systems
Executive order urges agencies that oversee health insurers and medical providers to share quality and price information.
Pay & Benefits
Tax Changes: Part One
The first in a two-part series on recent changes in tax laws that could affect your retirement plans.
Management
Report recommends limited use of pay incentives
Measurement should focus on intrinsic motivation and allow for failure, researcher says.
Management
Pentagon plans shift of blue-collar workers to new pay system
Defense officials bring in Federal Managers Association to consult on new rules.
Tech
Library of Congress undergoing workforce transformation
Nearly 200 employees take advantage of a voluntary incentive to retire early, as library prepares to digitally preserve its collection.
Pay & Benefits
CBP continues streamlined process for awarding bonuses
Agency is sticking with its policy until it hears from the Federal Labor Relations Authority on an appeal of an arbitrator’s decision.
Pay & Benefits
OPM announces cost-of-living changes
Employees in Alaska, Puerto Rico protest comparison to Washington, D.C., to arrive at changes in salary supplements.
Defense
DHS will not seek full appeals court review of labor decision
Department is still weighing whether to ask the Supreme Court to overturn decision rejecting key elements of its new personnel system.
Pay & Benefits
The Long Haul: Part Three
A look at specific factors involved in choosing a long-term care insurance policy.
Pay & Benefits
OPM replaces head of electronic pension system project
The FAA’s Thomas O’Keefe steps in as the last contract is being awarded and the system gets going.
Pay & Benefits
Borrowing From Yourself
You can get a low-interest loan from your Thrift Savings Plan account, but you might pay the price in retirement savings.
Management
Foreign Service recruiting effort undercut by wartime demands
Many mid-level positions in hardship locations are filled by junior officers with limited experience.
Pay & Benefits
Report: Federal pay, benefits double private sector's
New numbers don’t account for higher education of federal employees, and fail to evaluate comparable jobs, critics say.
Pay & Benefits
The Long Haul: Part Two
The second in a series on long-term care insurance focuses on whether you need to purchase a policy.
Pay & Benefits
TSP international fund far outpaces others in yearlong returns
Small and mid-size domestic companies continue volatile streak, dipping in July.
Pay & Benefits