Pay & Benefits
Eight more agencies win authority to hike SES pay
Four Cabinet departments and four independent agencies win certification for new performance evaluation systems.
Pay & Benefits
GAO releases details of new pay structure
Pay caps raised for some employees; maximum potential earnings drop for others.
Pay & Benefits
Back and Forth
The Pentagon and OPM respond to charges that they're breaking the law by refusing to allow labor unions to see draft plans for the National Security Personnel System.
Management
More 'plum' jobs available in second Bush administration
New edition of report on political jobs cites an increase in noncompetitive positions.
Pay & Benefits
Defense unveils first group of employees to shift to new personnel system
Approximately 60,000 workers are scheduled to shift to the controversial new system next summer.
Defense
Personnel reforms included in intelligence legislation
Bill allows the FBI to set up an intelligence career path and creates scholarships to encourage students to enter the field.
Pay & Benefits
Nine more agencies gain SES pay certification
About 3,000 of the nearly 7,000 top civil service executives now are eligible for salary hikes to nearly $160,000 a year.
Pay & Benefits
Pay Inequity
Senior officials at the Federal Aviation Administration are looking into the pay cap controversy.
Pay & Benefits
Bill eliminating TSP open seasons headed to White House
Legislation includes financial literacy language.
Pay & Benefits
House approves new dental, vision benefits package
While employees must pay entire cost, pre-tax dollars may be used.
Pay & Benefits
OPM rules allow agencies to raise some SES salaries
Only those with certified performance systems can boost pay rates to new base cap.
Pay & Benefits
Workers will still receive 3.5 percent raise, observers say
Lawmakers, aides and observers say Congress will override the latest White House proposal to cap the pay raise.
Pay & Benefits
Proposal to eliminate 2005 locality pay increase angers unions
Plan is evidence of "low value" President Bush places on civil service workers, union leader says.
Management
GAO, scholars push for governmentwide personnel reform guidelines
Agencies warn that not complying with personnel reform could fracture the civil service.
Pay & Benefits
Less for the Long Term?
An FAA employee is leading a group of long-term employees who are unhappy with the distribution of a pay cap.
Pay & Benefits
Bush moves to limit 2005 pay raise to 2.5 percent
President says no locality pay raise for civilian workers next year.
Pay & Benefits
Defense Department not tracking personnel spending, report says
Government Accountability Office calls on the Pentagon to increase oversight of personnel and benefits spending.
Pay & Benefits
Legislator says withholding Pentagon personnel plans violates laws
The Defense Department is obligated to share its plans for a new personnel system with union representatives, says Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Pay & Benefits
Congress approves 3.5 percent civilian pay raise
Rebuffing White House for second straight year, House, Senate back military-civilian pay parity.
Pay & Benefits