Pay & Benefits
Courtesy Pay
Under draft OPM legislation, future pay increases would be tied not just to written performance standards, but unwritten guidelines such as common courtesy.
Pay & Benefits
Medicare beneficiaries sent empty envelopes
Recipients were supposed to receive information about new prescription drug benefits, but Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services acknowledges some problems with mailing.
Pay & Benefits
Bush administration developing governmentwide personnel reform bill
Proposal would do away with the General Schedule system by 2010.
Pay & Benefits
Defense personnel reform postponed
Target date for first group of employees to join the system shifted from July until the fall.
Defense
Defense ends conversations with unions over personnel system
Union leaders say meetings accomplished little, if anything.
Pay & Benefits
Enabling the Disabled
The House is trying to speed the process of providing higher compensation for disabled military retirees.
Defense
Senator wants $96 million restored to DHS management
Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, says total cuts to Homeland Security management programs could endanger the new personnel system.
Pay & Benefits
More Flexible?
A new, longer window for private sector workers to spend money in Flexible Spending Accounts has not yet been extended to the federal workforce.
Defense
Homeland Security appeals for personnel funding
Agency asks Congress to reverse House vote diverting funds from implementation of new system.
Defense
Pentagon appeals decision halting anthrax vaccinations
Defense Department argues that FDA studies show vaccine is safe and effective in combating all forms of anthrax.
Defense
Chairman removes health care provision from defense measure
Amendment would have opened the Tricare system to all National Guard members and reservists.
Defense
House lawmakers direct funds away from DHS personnel system
Union commends move as bill awaits Senate action.
Pay & Benefits
Federal employees satisfied with supervisors
Almost 70 percent of employees in the 2004 Federal Human Capital Survey praised the work of their immediate supervisors, and another 70 percent said their performance appraisals were fair.
Defense
Energy boosts contractor share at Los Alamos
Proposals for the management contract are due by July 19 and a decision will be issued by Dec. 1.
Pay & Benefits
Pentagon Pay
A new committee will examine the military pay system and could recommend changes.
Pay & Benefits
House subcommittee votes to add employee, retiree benefits
Measures cover pretax health insurance premiums for retirees, student loan repayments and transportation subsidies.
Pay & Benefits
Unions walk out of Pentagon personnel system meetings
Calling the meet-and-confer process a ‘sham,’ five unions representing 100,000 Defense workers leave sessions.
Pay & Benefits
Idea of TSP real estate fund gains ground on Capitol Hill
Passage of the measure would mark the first time the plan was changed over the objections of the TSP board of directors.
Pay & Benefits
Advocates take pay parity fight to appropriations panel
A group of eight House members is continuing the annual push for equal military and civilian federal pay adjustments.
Defense