Pay & Benefits
TSP stock funds post losses in March
Less-risky funds show minimal gains for the month.
Oversight
Report identifies top 10 management challenges facing next administration
Skyrocketing cost of health care, retirement programs could squeeze out other critical policy priorities, according to think tank.
Pay & Benefits
GAO questions progress on retirement claims system
Watchdog agency says OPM report on new self-service benefits system is incomplete.
Pay & Benefits
Salaries for jobs requiring Top Secret security clearances on the rise, survey says
Government contractors with security clearances on average earned nearly $18,000 more than their federal employee counterparts.
Pay & Benefits
National Nuclear Security Administration to launch pay for performance
Five-year pilot project will put nearly 2,000 workers into broad paybands.
Pay & Benefits
Continued Coverage, Continued
Answers to reader questions about continuing health benefits into retirement.
Pay & Benefits
Study: agencies should capitalize on strengths to attract mid-level hires
New employees in upper ranks view their agencies more favorably than their previous employers.
Defense
Pentagon blurred line between contractors, feds: GAO
Report cites major problems, salary disparity at Army contracting office.
Pay & Benefits
Intelligence community places premium on collaboration and job satisfaction, survey says
Agencies fall short in rewarding performance and dealing with problem employees, results show.
Defense
TSA makes more modifications to screener pay system
Administrator says new pay-for-performance system has become “far too complicated.”
Pay & Benefits
Healthy Choice?
A study shows that high-deductible health plans have done little to crack down on rising costs.
Oversight
OMB announces new cap on executive compensation costs in federal contracts
Fiscal 2008 cap nearly $15,000 higher than last year.
Pay & Benefits
Generations are in sync on quality of work life, says panel
Leadership and pay flexibility are linchpins to hiring and keeping a young, diverse workforce.
Pay & Benefits
Move over 'American Idol,' there’s a new contest in town -- FedPitch
Contestants get two minutes to pitch their ideas for better workforce management.
Pay & Benefits
OPM seeks enhanced hearing benefits in federal health plan
Move would follow last year’s move by most FEHBP carriers to provide hearing benefits to children up to age 22.
Pay & Benefits
The Five-Year Test
Details of the requirements for continuing federal health benefits into retirement.
Tech
Younger employees present challenge to information security, study shows
New generation of workers has more lax attitudes about technology than their older colleagues.
Pay & Benefits
Groundhog Day
The battle over pay parity between civilian employees and military members resumes.
Oversight
Panel urges new administration to go slow on pay reform
Government workforce gurus offer their two cents on federal pay scale, contracting.
Pay & Benefits