Management
Recent Bush initiatives raise issue of lower morale
A series of recent decisions regarding pay, benefits and union rights have soured President Bush’s relationship with federal labor leaders and many of the people they represent. But the damage is not necessarily permanent.
Pay & Benefits
TSP limits
Attention federal workers who turn 50 next year: You’ll be able to put up to $14,000 into your Thrift Savings Plan account in 2003. But don’t worry about that yet.
Pay & Benefits
Cape Codders lose locality pay battle
The Bush administration has rejected a recommendation to boost the salaries of federal workers in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Pay & Benefits
Bush administration mulls 2 percent raise in 2004
Federal employees would get a 2 percent pay raise in 2004, the smallest pay raise in a decade, under plans being weighed by the Bush administration.
Management
White House restores bonuses for appointees
Political appointees throughout the federal government may receive cash bonuses to reward them for outstanding work, the White House said Wednesday.
Pay & Benefits
Bush moves to limit pay raise to 3.1 percent next year
President Bush has acted to limit the pay increase for civilian federal employees to 3.1 percent next year, with no locality pay raises.
Defense
Homeland employees’ jobs, pay safe for at least a year
Homeland Security Department employees will be able to keep their jobs and current pay rates for at least a year after they transfer from their current agencies to the new department, Office of Personnel Management officials said Tuesday.
Defense
Homeland officials must work with employees on civil service rules
The Homeland Security Department’s leaders must consult with employee organizations before making any changes to civil service rules for the department’s 170,000 employees, under the law creating the new Cabinet-level agency.
Defense