Management
Women’s group backs personnel reform but urges caution
Organization calls for data collection, analysis to ensure pay-for-performance system is fair to women and minorities.
Management
Auditors investigating price tag of Defense personnel reforms
Bipartisan group of senators issues request for GAO to examine the Pentagon’s estimate of $158 million.
Pay & Benefits
Lobbying for Locality Pay
Secrets to how some areas have successfully lobbied for higher rates.
Defense
Military spending on pay, benefits spiraling upward, GAO chief says
Higher compensation packages for service members and escalating health care costs are dampening DoD's long-term financial outlook, David Walker says.
Management
Pentagon scales back, delays first installment of NSPS
Initial group scheduled to enter the personnel system is cut by 54,000 employees and start date is pushed back by four months.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers press Bush for military-civilian pay parity
Representatives kick off annual clash over the civilian pay raise.
Pay & Benefits
Consultants advise TSP not to change investment mix
Recommendation comes as part of first-ever professional review of the $175 billion retirement savings plan.
Pay & Benefits
The Real Pay Formula
The recipe actually used to derive the civilian pay raise puts employees in line for a 2.2 percent hike in 2007.
Pay & Benefits
ICE employees granted back pay for undocumented overtime
Arbitrator grants additional funds after a $20 million summer ruling.
Pay & Benefits
Ruling on back pay for federally employed reservists faces challenge
If allowed to stand, administrative judge decision could qualify more employees for retroactive pay.
Pay & Benefits
TSP broadens flexibilities for feds hit by hurricanes
Through the spring, employees can make multiple withdrawals without having to halt contributions.
Pay & Benefits
FAA boosts payband ceilings after three-year freeze
Officials also announce a 3.1 percent pay raise coupled with a 1 percent locality increase.
Pay & Benefits
An Unfunded Fund
Why the Human Capital Performance Fund, designed to reward top performers, never got off the ground.
Pay & Benefits
Mileage reimbursement rate to drop 4 cents
Decrease will bring the rate for federal employees in line with that set by the IRS.
Pay & Benefits
December marks another winning month for TSP
International stocks are biggest performers, gaining 4.64 percent.
Pay & Benefits
Pentagon postpones training on personnel system
Managers can continue to work on “soft skills” while department reevaluates details of human resources reforms.
Pay & Benefits
GAO to move employees to market-based pay
Some supervisors will be eligible for $10,000 in additional salary.
Pay & Benefits
HHS officials say Medicare drug enrollment on target
Enrollment program started last month and will continue into May.
Pay & Benefits
Bush approves 3.1 percent pay raise
President issues executive order allocating 2.1 percent for across-the-board increase and 1 percent for locality raises.
Pay & Benefits