Locality pay dreams

When it comes to locality pay rates, it seems that everyone wants to escape the "Rest of the United States."

• Brian Friel
• August 29, 2002

Deadline for 2003 pay raise looms

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• August 27, 2002

TSP travail

The latest computer system delay irks TSP participants.

• Brian Friel
• August 22, 2002

TSP board delays new computer system again

A new computer system that would give federal employees more control over their 401k-style Thrift Savings Plan accounts won’t be ready until November, the TSP board announced Tuesday.

• Brian Friel
• August 20, 2002

Top contractor offers few rights to gay employees

• Jason Peckenpaugh
• August 15, 2002

The good ol' G Fund

The meekest fund in the Thrift Savings Plan is now the most popular.

• Brian Friel
• August 15, 2002

Highest civil service award no longer limited to SES members

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• August 14, 2002

Union questions IT staff cuts at Treasury

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• August 12, 2002

City-pair contracts offer deep discounts to federal travelers

The cost of plane tickets for federal travelers will be even lower in fiscal 2003 under the new city-pair airline contracts awarded Thursday by the General Services Administration.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• August 8, 2002

Impasses panel takes up SEC pay dispute

• Brian Friel
• August 8, 2002

Transit quandary

An agency orders an employee to pay back half of his monthly vanpool benefit. Outrage ensues.

• Brian Friel
• August 8, 2002

Bill would stabilize funding for veterans health care system

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• August 6, 2002

Better buyouts

Better buyouts may be an added bonus of the new Department of Homeland Security.

• Brian Friel
• August 1, 2002

Group suggests compromise on homeland security personnel rules

A nonprofit group on Wednesday proposed a set of civil service reforms that could serve as a compromise in the battle between unions representing federal employees and the Bush administration over personnel rules for the new Department of Homeland Security.

• Brian Friel
• July 31, 2002

Agencies would get buyout authority under Senate homeland security bill

• Jason Peckenpaugh
• July 30, 2002

House approves pay raise for law enforcement officers

• Kellie Lunney
• July 29, 2002

Free telecommuting trial period attracts feds

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 25, 2002

House votes to block OMB competitive sourcing initiative

• Jason Peckenpaugh
• July 25, 2002

A $130 million lift

Federal employees are cashing in on the transit benefit program.

• Brian Friel
• July 25, 2002

Senate panel rejects move to loosen civil service protections

Debate in the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on a proposal to create a Department of Homeland Security moved swiftly Wednesday, until senators took up the controversial issue of civil service protections for employees.

• Mark Wegner, April Fulton, Brody Mullins, Geoff Earle and Charlie Mitchell
• July 24, 2002