Pay & Benefits
Homeland Security, union officials honor fallen customs officers
Over the past 200 years, 111 officers in the Customs, Immigration and Agriculture Inspection Services have died on the job.
Pay & Benefits
Union calls for 3.9 percent federal pay increase in 2009
NTEU also will push to increase government’s share of health insurance premiums, among other legislative priorities.
Defense
Clinton supports bill to ban use of State Department private security contractors
Democratic presidential hopeful wants diplomatic security in Iraq and Afghanistan handled by federal personnel.
Pay & Benefits
Riskier TSP funds post losses for February
Least risky funds lead the pack for monthly and yearly earnings.
Oversight
OPM sets new funding mechanism for executive boards
Agency also issues more than 100 goals for improving hiring and benefits processes.
Pay & Benefits
Telework measure clears workforce subcommittee
Bill requires that all agencies create telework polices and develop programs to train managers and employees to take advantage of teleworking opportunities.
Oversight
Social Security chief calls eliminating backlog a ‘moral imperative’
Commissioner cites hiring more judges, congressional budget approval as key to reducing disability hearings backlog.
Pay & Benefits
Keep Your Records
De-cluttering your life is a great idea, but some records are too important to be thrown out.
Pay & Benefits
GAO: Federal workers’ compensation program mismanaged millions of dollars
Report says Labor’s poor management resulted in $13.3 million in improper payments in 2006.
Pay & Benefits
Performance Pay Perils
A salary system for career executives might not be the model many had hoped it would be.
Oversight
TSA extends whistleblower protections
Unions say agreement with Merit Systems Protection Board doesn’t go far enough.
Pay & Benefits
Agencies urged to avoid generational stereotypes
Generation Y includes more than selfish slackers, officials at conference are told.
Pay & Benefits
OPM launches electronic retirement system
Agency aims to improve quality of services to more than 3 million active federal employees.
Pay & Benefits
Facing Disability
How your benefits and retirement can be affected if you become sick or injured.
Pay & Benefits
Employees in the dark on telework policies
New study says one of out three federal employees is ignorant of their agency’s telework policy.
Pay & Benefits
Generation Gap
Don’t let stereotypes about young and older workers lead to flawed pay and benefits policy.
Defense
Officers say military weakened, not broken, by Iraq and Afghanistan
Three out of five think the military is not as strong as it was five years ago, according to new survey.
Defense
Court dismisses Homeland Security labor relations case
Move ends protracted fight over collective bargaining rights.
Pay & Benefits
GSA employee goes from union organizing to stapler filling
Agency calls it routine reassignment; clerk sees ulterior motive.
Pay & Benefits