Pay & Benefits

Not-so-special pay

Federal IT workers learned this month that special salary rates become less and less special each year.

Pay & Benefits

Social Security Administration settles race discrimination suit

The Social Security Administration agreed Friday to pay $7.75 million to settle a discrimination suit lodged by 2,200 black male employees in 1995.

Pay & Benefits

Compressed pay

Senior executives feel the squeeze on their annual salaries.

Pay & Benefits

TSP Funds fare well in December

Pay & Benefits

OPM, union settle special rates pay case for $173 million

After more than 19 years of legal wrangling and tense negotiations with the National Treasury Employees Union, the federal government has agreed to pay more than $173 million to settle a back pay case that affects at least 212,000 current and former “special rate” employees.

Defense

Military pay raise averages 6.9 percent

Pay & Benefits

Domestic partners not eligible for long-term care benefit

For now, domestic partners of federal employees are not eligible for the new long-term health insurance benefit, although the Office of Personnel Management may revisit the issue in the future.

Pay & Benefits

Postal inspector general criticizes executive awards program

For two consecutive years, every eligible executive in the Postal Inspection Service received a cash payout from its executive awards program, according to an inspector general's audit.

Pay & Benefits

Try, try again

Several pay and benefits proposals that failed to pass in Congress last year are likely to be pushed again this year.