Pay & Benefits
Vetted
The Senate approves a provision that would allow more disabled vets to draw their full retirement and disability benefits.
Defense
Rumsfeld: Defense needs personnel reform to manage better
The Defense Department needs a new, more cohesive personnel system to effectively manage civilian employees, Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Senate lawmakers Wednesday.
Pay & Benefits
Graduates prefer nonprofit jobs over civil service
Interest in public service careers is growing among graduating college seniors, but the focus is on nonprofit employment rather than federal jobs, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution.
Management
Postal commission considers new pay system
A pay-for-performance system could be included in a forthcoming plan to reform the U.S. Postal Service, most likely encompassing both employees and managers.
Pay & Benefits
Path to performance
How will the pay-for-performance fund work if Congress approves it?
Pay & Benefits
House passes pay-for-performance measure
When House lawmakers passed the fiscal 2004 Defense authorization bill, they included a $500 million fund managers can use to bump up the salaries of high-performing employees.
Management
White House opposes pay parity, job competition restrictions
The Bush administration announced Thursday that it opposes language in a House bill calling for military-civilian pay parity, and objects to an effort to prohibit the use of goals for putting Defense Department jobs up for competition with the private sector.
Defense
House GOP blocks effort to scale back Defense personnel overhaul
House Republicans this week blocked Democrats’ efforts to rein in a proposal to let the Defense Department overhaul its civilian personnel system.
Pay & Benefits