Pay & Benefits
Key civil service lawmaker unseated; others cruise to victory
Key lawmakers on civil service committees overwhelmingly retained their seats Tuesday in this year’s House and Senate elections. The lone exception was in Maryland's 8th District, where Democratic state Sen. Chris Van Hollen upended Rep. Connie Morella, an eight-term Republican.
Management
Postal Service may reap pension windfall
In a new financial assessment, the Office of Personnel Management concludes that the Postal Service has paid billions of dollars more than necessary into its employees' pension fund during the last 30 years.
Pay & Benefits
Elections will bring new leaders in key civil service posts
Congress will lose at least two, and possibly three, lawmakers on Tuesday who have championed the rights of federal workers and crusaded for federal management reforms.
Pay & Benefits
Base pay raise for 2004 pegged at 2.7 percent
Federal employees are likely to get a 2.7 percent across-the-board pay raise in 2004, based on figures released by the Labor Department Thursday.
Defense
States find success with civil service reform, report says
Personnel directors in three states that have eliminated civil service laws can more quickly hire, fire, promote and re-assign workers than they could when the laws were in place, a new report says.
Management
OPM announces internal restructuring plan
The Office of Personnel Management may need to hire more staff, not cut staff, as part of a reorganization aimed at making the office a better central human resources agency for the government, a senior OPM official said Wednesday.
Pay & Benefits
Winter decisions
The Senate—and you—have several pay and benefits decisions to make this winter.
Pay & Benefits
Senate passes several federal benefits bills
The Senate on Thursday approved three minor benefits bills that would affect injured federal workers, Smithsonian Institution employees and Overseas Private Investment Corporation employees.
Defense