Defense
DHS reorganization won’t stop implementation of personnel rules
Rules still slated to go into effect Aug. 1; some top-level positions would receive title, pay changes.
Management
OMB, lawmakers spar over bid to overhaul civil service
Legislators reluctant to expand personnel reforms to entire federal workforce before seeing results at the Defense and Homeland Security departments.
Pay & Benefits
Red Pen Scare
The countdown to implementation of the Homeland Security Department’s labor relations policies is raising fears in some employees.
Pay & Benefits
Report lays out options for managing poor performers
Homeland Security experiments with extending probationary period to two years.
Pay & Benefits
House approves 3.1 percent pay increase
Senate likely to follow suit, but White House raises objections.
Pay & Benefits
FAA workers weigh legal action in pay cap dispute
Workers unhappy with caps on compensation ponder lawsuit to accompany their EEOC age discrimination complaint.
Pay & Benefits
TSP Tech Turnover
The top technology official at the Thrift Savings Plan is leaving after a nine-year run.
Pay & Benefits
Nontraditional work arrangements underutilized, report says
Nonstandard work arrangements could help provide a pre-trained group available for full-time work if needed, scholars say.
Pay & Benefits
New OPM chief confirmed by Senate
Linda Springer takes over personnel agency during contentious time for the federal workforce.
Pay & Benefits
Flexible spending deadline extended for federal workers
OPM will allow employees to keep money in their FSAs for an extra two and a half months.
Defense
DHS management directives spark union outrage
Directives outline discipline, official responsibility and labor relations in the new Homeland Security personnel system.
Pay & Benefits
Appropriations panel adds pay parity amendment to budget
Measure would give civilian employees a 3.1 percent pay raise in 2006, equal to that proposed for service members.
Pay & Benefits
Thrift board sends more call center work to contractors
A contract announced Monday will reportedly save TSP $40 million over five years.
Pay & Benefits
House reform committee passes civil service bills
Pre-tax health insurance premium legislation headed to the House Ways and Means Committee, where it stalled last year.
Defense
Unions continue fight against Pentagon personnel system
Coalition presents recommendations to Acting Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England.
Pay & Benefits
New Recruits
A group of disgruntled FAA employees tries to woo more workers to their cause.
Pay & Benefits
Congressmen schedule base closing meeting in Virginia
Reps. Tom Davis, R-Va., and Jim Moran, D-Va., will host the June 20 town hall meeting in state where recommendation is to move thousands of workers.
Pay & Benefits
Subpoena spurs Pentagon to release base-closing documents
Sen. Joseph Lieberman says Defense has been “at least partially responsive” to questions about BRAC.
Pay & Benefits