Oversight
Stimulus workload taxes agency staffs and missions
Survey shows other projects have been put on the back burner, leading to award delays and less contract monitoring.
Pay & Benefits
Poverty Line
Does your long-term financial plan involve impoverishment to qualify for public assistance with long-term care?
Pay & Benefits
Senator showcases exemplary feds
Delaware Democrat aims to improve the public’s perception of government workers through floor speeches and exhibition.
Pay & Benefits
Beating the Backlog Blues
Agencies that address federal workplace complaints try to stay on top of their caseloads.
Pay & Benefits
Performance chief calls for more nuanced employee ratings
More must be done to single out both outstanding and subpar employees, Zients says.
Pay & Benefits
House passes bill to preserve pay for furloughed Transportation workers
Employees would get normal salary rates and benefits for days lost after highway funding stalled in Congress.
Defense
Contest to organize airport screeners heats up
AFGE makes inroads on petition to represent TSA employees, with rival union NTEU close on its heels.
Pay & Benefits
Attacks on federal employees, facilities a hot-button issue at union conference
IRS employees have reported threatening phone calls from targets of audits and investigations, NTEU leader says.
Oversight
Turning around negative view of government will take time, Obama official says
Strides in IT and human capital seen as key to improving program performance and gaining public trust.
Pay & Benefits
OMB chief calls reports federal employees are overpaid ‘misleading’
Citing education, experience of workers, Peter Orszag says they deserve the salaries they get.
Oversight
Obama taps former intelligence officer to lead TSA
Labor unions take a wait-and-see approach to nomination of retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Harding.
Pay & Benefits
Report shows jump in use of incentive payments
OPM says agency spending on three different kinds of bonuses increased 37 percent between 2007 and 2008.
Pay & Benefits
The $100,000 question: How much pay is too much for a federal employee?
Public-private pay comparisons obscure complicated issues surrounding federal salaries, observers say.
Oversight
Provision to fire tax-delinquent federal employees pulled
Republicans claim the majority is protecting federal employees; Democrats urge patience as details are ironed out.
Oversight
OPM aims to release revised retirement statements by mid-April
Agency is testing new system to fix a glitch in the annuity calculator that affected thousands of retirees.
Defense
From Nextgov.com: Army will tap its ‘digital natives’ for apps
Contest under way to award $30,000 in prize money for software programs that will fundamentally change the way the Army operates.
Pay & Benefits
‘Burrowing in’ increased slightly under Bush, report shows
New numbers rekindle debate over whether moving political appointees to career jobs can be beneficial.
Pay & Benefits