Pay & Benefits

OPM to play larger role in Defense personnel overhaul

OPM did not help develop the Pentagon’s personnel policy proposal sent to union leaders last week, but the agency is now planning to focus on the Defense Department’s personnel overhaul, a senior OPM official said Wednesday.

Pay & Benefits

TSP numbers climb in January

The Thrift Savings Plan's S, C, I, F and G funds all grew in January, according to the latest numbers from the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board.

Management

Administration says holding down pay raises helps agencies' budgets

The Bush administration wants to hold the 2005 civil servant pay raise at 1.5 percent because it does not want to saddle federal agencies with unfunded mandates, an administration official said Friday.

Pay & Benefits

Pay Raise Malaise

Federal workers are up in arms over President Bush’s proposed 1.5 percent raise for civilian federal employees in his fiscal 2005 budget.

Pay & Benefits

Space Transformation

House approval moves a NASA personnel reform bill to the launch pad.

Pay & Benefits

Two Raises

OPM loosens restrictions to allow Senior Executive Service members to get more than one pay raise this year.

Pay & Benefits

Capped

Federal Law Enforcement officers try again to ease pay compression in their top ranks.