Defense
Details emerge on Pentagon performance management system
Rating scales, types of goals, weighting scheme all included in recently released information.
Pay & Benefits
Tenure no longer a factor in senior execs’ annual leave
As part of effort to recruit mid-career employees, every member of the SES gets 26 days off a year.
Management
Personnel agency offers advice on developing better managers
Survey revealing federal employees’ poor view of supervisors prompts new guidelines.
Pay & Benefits
Counting COLAs
A look at how the 2007 retiree cost-of-living allowances announced this week will play out in the real world.
Management
Intelligence agencies to follow Defense in personnel reform
Employees at 16 agencies will work under first cross-agency system outside General Schedule.
Pay & Benefits
Smart Giving
A new tool offers federal employees detailed financial information about Combined Federal Campaign charities.
Pay & Benefits
President honors elite federal executives
Highest award comes with cash bonus of more than $35,000.
Pay & Benefits
CSRS retirees to get 3.3 percent pension bump
Retirees in the newer FERS system will receive a 2.3 percent adjustment next year.
Defense
Original judge in DHS labor case to keep jurisdiction
Agency officials required to give court a status report on new labor system in nine months.
Pay & Benefits
Trial that could out feds alleged to have bogus degrees delayed
Proceedings will only begin next October, because of the volume of documents involved.
Pay & Benefits
TSP board mulls legislative agenda
Board may seek changes in five areas, including automatic enrollment, loan restrictions and post-tax investment options.
Pay & Benefits
Health Insurance Choices, Part Three
The last in a three-part series on open season for the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program focuses on health maintenance organizations.
Pay & Benefits
Salary council defers decision on changing locality pay formula
Change would mean New York, San Francisco employees would take home even more than colleagues in other cities.
Pay & Benefits
A Helping Hand
Federal employees dig deep to help co-workers pay for education and emergencies.
Pay & Benefits
Health Insurance Choices, Part Two
The second in a three-part series on open season for the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program focuses on high-deductible health plans.
Defense
Internal board could spark new clash in DHS labor overhaul
Review panel will be a centerpiece of discussions when unions and department officials meet to revise labor plan.
Pay & Benefits
On the Move
Congress extended a bill to make it easier to recoup relocation costs, but agencies may be the real winners.
Tech
Movement in federal IT jobs increasing, panelists say
The “golden handcuffs” perception of federal work is fading, fostering more back and forth between the civil service and the private sector.
Defense