Oversight
House passes 3.5 percent military pay raise
Bill also would restore collective bargaining and appeal rights to new Defense personnel system, impose new outsourcing restrictions.
Pay & Benefits
OMB orders measures to limit abuse of transit benefit
Agencies will have to ensure that they take basic precautions such as checking that applicants aren’t simultaneously using free parking.
Pay & Benefits
Still Pushing
Short-term disability benefits and electronic retirement records remain high priorities for OPM Director Linda Springer.
Pay & Benefits
Union negotiates foreign language pay for customs, border officers
Agreement comes as election for representation of more than 20,000 non-Border Patrol employees remains in dispute.
Oversight
More than 200 GAO employees to petition for back pay
Employees and retirees are seeking pay and benefits they claim they were unfairly denied under new personnel system.
Oversight
Student aid chief took home $250,000 in bonuses
Theresa Shaw, whose Education Department office is under scrutiny for its oversight efforts, was covered by special performance-based pay system.
Pay & Benefits
Prospects for new whistleblower protections may be improving
Congressional efforts to strengthen 1989 law said to have bipartisan support.
Oversight
Lawmakers probe agencies’ diversity efforts
Ad campaigns and proactive job fair appearances are among the strategies being used to attract a diverse applicant pool.
Pay & Benefits
Retirement Estimate: The Details
The lowdown on how your basic retirement benefit is determined.
Defense
DHS touts progress on recruitment, morale
Senior official tells lawmakers the department is learning from poor results on a 2006 federal workforce survey.
Pay & Benefits
Performance-Based Perils
Another federal organization that was supposed to be a model of personnel reform faces scrutiny.
Defense
White House threatens to veto bill repealing DHS personnel overhaul
Administration says measure would interfere with the department's management authority, hinder the department's ability to conduct missions and conflict with the fiscal 2008 budget request.
Defense
House committee backs 3.5 percent military pay raise
Panel keeps provision to roll back aspects of controversial new civilian personnel system.
Defense
House subcommittee votes to roll back parts of Defense personnel system
GOP staffers may seek to reverse action in full committee markup.
Pay & Benefits
Mobility cited as key to recruiting top science talent
Training and educational incentives including loan repayments are also helpful, panelists say.
Management
Union to file for first-ever election at GAO
Group set to submit election cards from more than half of the agency’s 1,500 analysts.
Pay & Benefits
Civil service honored in week of events
Agencies to host displays on the National Mall, letting the public see what government does.
Defense
Welcome to the new GovernmentExecutive.com
Here’s your guide to the ins and outs of our redesigned site.
Pay & Benefits
Basic Retirement Computations
Understanding the math behind computing your basic retirement benefit.
Defense