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.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• June 12, 2002

Union officials question proposed Trademark Office layoffs

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• June 11, 2002

Defense officials hesitant to use expanded lease authority

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• June 10, 2002

VA benefits production quotas called into question

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• June 7, 2002

OMB to agencies: Don’t waste employees’ talents

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• June 5, 2002

NRC holds firm on keeping nuclear security forces private

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• June 5, 2002

Baggage screeners get limited whistleblower protections

Airport security screeners hired by the Transportation Security Administration will have limited whistleblower protections under a complaint process announced Monday by TSA chief John Magaw and Elaine Kaplan, head of the Office of Special Counsel.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• June 3, 2002

SEC, union at impasse over new pay plan

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• May 31, 2002

Trademark Office to lay off attorneys this summer

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• May 30, 2002

FBI director unveils plan for agency overhaul

FBI Director Robert Mueller announced plans Wednesday to hire hundreds of new agents, replace outdated computer systems and create new offices in an effort to reorganize the 94-year-old agency and shift its mission to preventing terrorism.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• May 29, 2002

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.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• May 28, 2002

Federal call centers offer best customer service, study finds

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• May 24, 2002

Report highlights possible discrimination at weapons labs

Minorities and women at three Energy Department weapons labs may have been victims of discrimination, according to a new General Accounting Office report.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• May 23, 2002

Legislation would let FAA managers keep retirement benefits

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• May 22, 2002

Cafeteria benefit plans draw fire at hearing

A House subcommittee chairman pushed the idea of cafeteria-style benefit plans for federal employees at a hearing Tuesday, but labor leaders said the idea would simply shift costs from the government to workers.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• May 21, 2002

TSP funds return mixed results in April

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• May 8, 2002

Web site will consolidate all federal rules for comment

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• May 7, 2002

House delegate wants D.C. workers exempted from Hatch Act

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• May 6, 2002

OPM brings in experts to help jazz up job announcements

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• May 3, 2002

Small travel agencies struggling to get government business

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• May 2, 2002