Management
UN office: TSA screeners have collective bargaining rights
Union turns to international body after domestic courts reject its case; TSA won't heed the recommendation.
Pay & Benefits
Health Plan Checkup
Open season is the time to assess whether your health plan is still the right one for you.
Pay & Benefits
Energy officials postpone employee bonuses, awards
Payments must wait until Congress sorts out the department's fiscal 2007 appropriations, they say.
Pay & Benefits
Retirement Custodians
The new Democratic Congress has the power to influence federal retirement benefits, for better or for worse.
Pay & Benefits
Federal recruiters told to aim young
Energy Department official floats the idea of something like a GI Bill for federal scientists.
Management
Dems take control of House, changing oversight dynamics
Democrats likely to set more proactive agenda on federal employee issues, increase scrutiny of executive branch operations.
Pay & Benefits
Market research firm rates vision plans
One federal option earns J.D. Power & Associates' highest ranking for customer satisfaction.
Management
Defense unit pitches executive performance management software
About 90 senior executives at acquisition training facility will be taught the program by the end of the year.
Pay & Benefits
Best Dates to Retire 2007
Thinking about ending your federal career next year? Make sure you pick the best date, or you could cost yourself thousands of dollars.
Management
Forest Service moves hundreds of human resources jobs to New Mexico
Latest business consolidation slated to save the agency $22 million a year, but will cost some employees their jobs.
Pay & Benefits
Thrifty and Nifty
Check in on TSP returns, new contribution limits and some Web sites that aim to help you earn more.
Pay & Benefits
Bidding opens on 2008 pay raise at 3 percent
Even before the 2007 raise is decided, Labor Department figures provide basis to predict 2008 figure.
Pay & Benefits
In The E-Mailbag
Answers to readers’ questions on a range of retirement-related issues.
Defense
Three judges set to hear Defense personnel reform appeal
Pentagon releases results of survey indicating first entrants to new system are satisfied; unions dismiss findings.
Pay & Benefits
Prescription drug fraud settlement nets $155 million
Provider used by insurers in federal employee health programs agrees to settlement, but denies taking kickbacks, deleting prescriptions.
Defense
Details emerge on Pentagon performance management system
Rating scales, types of goals, weighting scheme all included in recently released information.
Pay & Benefits
Tenure no longer a factor in senior execs’ annual leave
As part of effort to recruit mid-career employees, every member of the SES gets 26 days off a year.
Management