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
Pay Pals
Senior House Democrat wants to work with the White House to develop a new pay plan for federal employees.
Defense
Agencies will help shoulder cost of new embassy construction
Agencies will pay fees to the State Department based on how many staffers they send to embassies abroad.
Pay & Benefits
Bush administration unveils 2005 pay raise
Executive order calls for a 3.5 percent average pay increase.
Pay & Benefits
Double Day Off
In January, Washington-area federal employees will receive two days off in one week.
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.
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Pay Inequity
Senior officials at the Federal Aviation Administration are looking into the pay cap controversy.
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