Pay & Benefits
Trials and Tribulations
How your federal health insurance stacks up if you wish to participate in a clinical trial.
Pay & Benefits
June a slow month for TSP investments
Riskiest and most conservative funds made small gains; others lost ground.
Defense
Unions seek full court review of Defense personnel ruling
Coalition asks appeals court to look at discrepancies between May ruling and earlier decision on DHS system.
Pay & Benefits
State Department reaches settlement over personnel violation
Officials broke a law that prohibits agencies from granting unauthorized preferences or advantages to job applicants.
Defense
Budget office says military-civilian pay gap dwindling
Military basic pay lags slightly behind civilian salaries, but food and housing allowances make up the difference.
Pay & Benefits
Deferred vs. Postponed
A primer on the differences between deferred and postponed retirement.
Pay & Benefits
House backs 3.5 percent civilian pay raise
The White House says "arbitrary" across-the-board increase will cost agencies more than $600 million in fiscal 2008.
Pay & Benefits
FAA reauthorization bill to move without labor agreement
Committee Democrats may offer an amendment that would support union's position to retroactively require binding arbitration.
Pay & Benefits
Health Savings Shortfalls
A look at how health savings accounts could affect comprehensive health plans.
Pay & Benefits
High court ruling protects feds from racketeering lawsuits
Supreme Court says allowing a Wyoming rancher to sue six federal employees personally would run the "risk of raising a tide of suits" against civil servants.
Oversight
Stronger training urged for front-line supervisors
As agencies move to pay for performance, supervisors will need better "soft skills," report says.
Pay & Benefits
Report touts progress linking execs’ pay, performance
Performance awards outpace pay raises as a percentage of overall compensation increases.
Oversight
Union files unfair labor practice charge against GAO chief
Group claims Comptroller General David M. Walker has made inappropriate statements undermining employees' rights to organize.
Pay & Benefits
The Retirement Process
Answers to some common questions about the details of the formal process of retiring.
Defense
State Department urged to beef up mental health support
Foreign Service employees returning from the Middle East may decide not to seek help for emotional problems due to fear of retaliation, officials testify.
Pay & Benefits
Payband Balancing Act
Some advice for agencies on striking a balance among efficiency, equity and employee acceptance in pay for performance systems.
Pay & Benefits
TSP board rejects divestiture proposals
Board members strongly oppose legislation that would prohibit investments in companies that do business in countries supporting genocide and terror.
Pay & Benefits
OPM says telework has increased despite appearances
Change in definition accounts for falling numbers; disparities in telework by pay grade remain.
Pay & Benefits
Auditors uncover fraud in federal benefit programs
Inspector general secures the return of more than $106 million to employee health program.
Oversight