Pay & Benefits
Thrift Savings Plan may be model for Social Security reform
The idea, which President Bush has already floated, raises questions about how such a program would work.
Defense
House, Senate committee chiefs urge slow approach to personnel overhaul
Sen. Susan Collins and Rep. Tom Davis want to review new personnel system before it is deployed governmentwide.
Defense
Bush administration plan to reform civil service draws union ire
The General Schedule overhaul is part of the president's fiscal 2006 budget proposal due to be released on Feb. 7.
Pay & Benefits
Federal workers will get time off for travel
The Office of Personnel Management has set interim rules to award compensatory time off for traveling federal workers.
Pay & Benefits
No Peeking
Proposed regulations for the National Security Personnel System should be reviewed and approved in the next few weeks.
Defense
DHS personnel system unveiled
Unions to file lawsuit asking court to halt implementation of the new system.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers renew fight for military-civilian pay parity
Bipartisan coalition urges president to include equal pay raises in 2006 budget proposal.
Defense
Panel investigates military family TRICARE complaints
Families claim revamped health care system fails to adequately cover special-needs children.
Pay & Benefits
TSP board resists pressure to establish a real estate fund
Lobbyists push Real Estate Investment Trusts as TSP vehicle; board members are cool to the idea.
Pay & Benefits
FAA workers plan lawsuit challenging pay caps
Workers whose base salaries are capped plan class action lawsuit against the agency.
Pay & Benefits
Countdown to Life Cycle
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board is on track to release its new life-cycle investment option in the summer of 2005.
Pay & Benefits
FAA will not lift pay caps on long-term employees
More than 800 workers have reached the top of their pay bands and are no longer eligible for base salary increases.
Pay & Benefits
Take Your Time
The Office of Personnel Management decides not to dismiss federal employees from work early on the eve of the inauguration.
Tech
OPM moves to standardize pay and benefits rules
As agencies move to e-Payroll system, OPM wants consistent policies on leave, pay, comp time and temp workers.
Pay & Benefits
New rules aim at easing hiring of people with disabilities
OPM removes requirement of documentation, updating 1979 order.
Pay & Benefits
OPM director tenders resignation
Kay Coles James announces plan to leave personnel agency on Jan. 31.
Pay & Benefits
More agencies gain certification to raise SES pay
Most of senior executive corps now eligible for a salary increase.
Pay & Benefits
Treasury officials hesitant to alter flexible spending account rule
Allowing workers to roll money over in flexible spending accounts could undercut another administration effort—the heavily promoted Health Savings Accounts.
Pay & Benefits