Pay & Benefits
Hot on the Hill
A recap of the recent flurry of retirement-related legislative activity.
Pay & Benefits
Pay freeze affects nearly one-third of White House staff
New salary data reveals 146 presidential employees earn $100,000 or more.
Oversight
Analysis: It’s Not About You
Unsolicited advice to political appointees coming to the Defense Department.
Pay & Benefits
Federal Forgiveness
A law that eases the student loan burden on graduates pursuing public service has gone into effect.
Pay & Benefits
Federal employee union leader found dead at 47
Colleagues praise Richard Brown for boosting the National Federation of Federal Employees’ stature and membership.
Pay & Benefits
June is a slow month for TSP
The S Fund, up 0.73 percent, posts the strongest returns for the first month of summer.
Pay & Benefits
Federal pay and benefits provisions missing from Senate bill
Senate version of DoD authorization does not include House-approved measures on sick leave fix, other retirement reforms.
Pay & Benefits
Personnel leader sets deadlines for hiring reform
OPM director also readies work-life balance programs, including several at his own agency.
Pay & Benefits
Agency personnel chiefs adjust to the limelight
The federal workforce is shifting and growing at a fierce rate, and human capital chiefs are in the middle of it.
Defense
Defense personnel system boasts supporters
Pay-for-performance at the Pentagon has many detractors, but also a fair share of defenders.
Pay & Benefits
Endless Summer, Endless Questions
Providing some basic information and monitoring the rumor mill.
Oversight
Reviews of NSPS sharply divided at first public hearing
Panel on Defense personnel system focuses on links between pay and performance, trust and training issues.
Pay & Benefits
House sounds death knell for Pentagon pay-for-performance system
Lawmakers approve fiscal 2010 Defense authorization bill, which requires department to dismantle NSPS within one year unless it demonstrates improvement.
Pay & Benefits
Bill would allow kids to remain in the federal employee health plan longer
House member renews push to increase cutoff age for coverage of dependent children from 22 to 25.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmaker pledges more oversight of FEHBP drug costs
Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., calls current system ‘a scam.’
Pay & Benefits
Pay Reform Pitfalls
Agencies struggle to get new personnel systems off the ground amid mixed results.
Defense
Administration calls language gutting Pentagon pay system ‘premature’
The results of an ongoing review will help lawmakers make informed decisions about the future of the pay-for-performance arrangement, White House says.
Pay & Benefits
House resuscitates FERS sick leave fix
Lawmakers plan to roll federal retirement reforms stripped out of previous legislation into Defense authorization bill.
Pay & Benefits
Pay parity supporters push for 3.4 percent civilian raise
Figure would exceed Obama’s request for civilians by 1.4 percentage points.
Defense