Oversight
Concerns over pay loom as Pentagon returns to General Schedule
Managers’ association urge lawmakers to ensure top-performing Defense employees don’t lose pay.
Oversight
Hiring reform could signal end of federal internship program
Unions feel confident OPM review will lead to program’s elimination.
Oversight
Feds almost pay a price for porn
Republican language banning agencies from paying employees caught viewing explicit images on work computers unravels technology bill.
Pay & Benefits
Cost estimates cause trouble for telework bill
Proponents of off-site work policies must do a better job of showing how flexibility can save money, panelists say.
Defense
TRICARE fee structure needs overhaul, says Defense official
Revamping the military’s health care system incentives is crucial to Pentagon savings.
Pay & Benefits
Forever Young
Lawmakers seek to expedite a provision allowing kids to stay on their parents’ health insurance longer.
Oversight
Lawmakers push potty parity
New legislation requires an equal number of male and female toilets in federal buildings.
Defense
Committee approves three veterans bills
Bills range from therapeutic companion dogs to chiropractors for injured or emotionally troubled vets.
Defense
House panel boosts military pay raise
Increase of half a percentage point over administration request comes just days after Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked Congress to hold the line on raises.
Oversight
Private employees face barriers entering the federal workforce, observers say
Most external applicants don’t understand how to navigate the government’s complicated hiring process.
Pay & Benefits
Essay-based job applications are on the way out
As expected, President Obama instructs agency heads to abandon KSAs in favor of résumés.
Pay & Benefits
Administration to announce hiring overhaul Tuesday
Agencies likely will be required to dispense with knowledge, skills and abilities statements by November.
Oversight
Secretary of State lauds high-performing senior executives
Hillary Rodham Clinton calls Distinguished Rank Award winners ‘the backbone, the nervous system, the intelligence of our government.’
Pay & Benefits
Question Time
Answers to recent reader queries on subjects ranging from annual leave credit to picking the best date to retire.
Pay & Benefits
Public Service Recognition Week winds down
Annual celebration acknowledges government workers and highlights their work.
Pay & Benefits
First lady applauds USAID employees
Michelle Obama thanks development workers for their efforts in Haiti and Afghanistan this year.
Pay & Benefits
Telework bill comes up short in the House
Supporters fail to get two-thirds majority necessary to pass legislation under suspension of the rules.
Pay & Benefits
TRICARE Triage
The Pentagon is looking for ways to nurse its insurance program back to better financial health, but one proposal already has critics.
Oversight