Pay & Benefits
Senior federal employees get additional leave
Another facet of the 2004 Federal Workforce Flexibility Act has been codified with regulations from OPM.
Pay & Benefits
Class Action Complaint
A group of FAA employees have formally filed age-discrimination complaint, but leader not hopeful for reconciliation.
Pay & Benefits
Senator calls for privacy protections in health benefits program
Democrat says he is worried about privacy as the FEHBP system adopts new technologies.
Pay & Benefits
Changes in travel comp time regulations unlikely
Experts say there are few obstacles to issuance of final rules on providing compensatory time off for federal employees' business travel.
Pay & Benefits
Foreign Service officers eligible for travel comp time
Office of Personnel Management originally indicated that Foreign Service members would not be eligible under new regulations.
Management
Bush picks former OMB controller to head OPM
Linda Springer would be the administration’s lead official on human resources issues.
Pay & Benefits
GAO says reservists experiencing travel reimbursement problems
Pentagon officials said difficulties are being addressed, and will be ultimately solved by the Defense Travel System.
Pay & Benefits
Performance Pay Push
The federal government is spending more money on performance bonuses.
Pay & Benefits
Senator says Pentagon executive pay decisions erode confidence
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said the Defense Department should build trust if it wants the new National Security Personnel System to succeed.
Pay & Benefits
Congress, employees still await details of Defense personnel system
Defense officials tell Senators that more information will emerge during upcoming "meet and confer" period.
Management
Shift to moon-Mars focus affects 2,680 NASA jobs
About 15 percent of civil service workforce will be transferred or paid to leave by end of fiscal 2006.
Pay & Benefits
Meet and Confer
Federal personnel officials will get together with union negotiators Thursday to iron out the details of the meet and confer period.
Pay & Benefits
House chairman opposes retiree pre-tax health premium bill
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas, R-Calif., is a powerful voice against a bill that could save federal retirees an average of $400 annually.
Defense
DHS employee appeals go to the top of the pile
Merit Systems Protection Board officials say provisions in the new Homeland Security personnel system require the agency to start giving priority to its cases.
Pay & Benefits
Bill on retiree health insurance premiums could stall again
Early optimism for premium conversion legislation has not spread to the House Ways and Means Committee.
Defense
Military weapons vs. benefits issue heats up at hearing
Pentagon official notes DoD plans to spend $130 billion of its $419 billion fiscal 2006 budget request on military personnel and health care.
Pay & Benefits
Pick Your Fights
Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told union members Wednesday that the Bush administration is trying to do away with collective bargaining.
Pay & Benefits
Pre-tax health premium bill for retirees surfaces again in Congress
A leading Republican senator says he will not rest until the bill is passed.
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