Pay & Benefits
Senator to introduce personnel reform bill
A coalition of business leaders, academics and good-government organizations are throwing their support behind human capital reform legislation that Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, plans to introduce Thursday.
Defense
New agency could bring new pay system
Federal employees who join the proposed Department of Homeland Security could end up under an entirely new pay system and lose their right to unionize under the Bush administration’s legislative proposal for the new department.
Defense
Customs officers get 21 percent pay hikes
About 2,500 Customs Service agents will get 21 percent raises in August, the head of the Customs Service announced Monday.
Pay & Benefits
Catch-up slowdown
A bill that would let federal workers over age 50 contribute more money each year to their Thrift Savings Plan accounts has hit a roadblock on Capitol Hill.
Pay & Benefits
Patent Office suspends telecommuting program
Officials at the Patent and Trademark Office have put a popular telecommuting program on hold while they negotiate the terms of a new program with an employee union.
Defense
White House discusses new agency with federal union leaders
White House officials met with the leaders of the two largest federal unions on Friday to talk about how the proposed creation of the Department of Homeland Security would affect federal workers.
Defense
Personnel reform, but no layoffs, envisioned for new department
No federal employees would be laid off if a 170,000-person Department of Homeland Security is created by consolidating dozens of existing federal offices, the Bush administration said.
Pay & Benefits
The loneliest number
How many federal workers got student loan help from Uncle Sam last year?
Pay & Benefits
Navy investigates misuse of comp time, leave rules
Two top executives at a Navy facility in Rhode Island have been suspended amid an investigation into employee misuse of compensatory time and leave rules at a 50,000-worker Navy command.
Pay & Benefits
Retention tension
The Bush administration has squashed a plan to let federal agencies use retention allowances to stop other agencies from hiring away their employees.
Pay & Benefits
Public service grows in appeal among young people
Young Americans are more interested in entering government service now than they were five years ago, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Council for Excellence in Government.
Pay & Benefits
TSP board proposes new rule on death benefit
After you die, your spouse would be able to roll over your Thrift Savings Plan nest egg into a 401k account or into his or her own TSP account, under a proposed rule issued last week.
Defense
Pay raise sought to stem law enforcement exodus
Park Police and uniformed Secret Service agents would get a pay boost under a House bill introduced this week.
Pay & Benefits