Management

Investigators probe theft of Defense medical records

Federal investigators are trying to find the thieves who stole computer equipment and medical records from a military contractor’s offices in mid-December.

Pay & Benefits

Bush issues order implementing 2003 pay raise

President Bush issued an executive order Tuesday formally implementing a 3.1 percent pay increase in 2003 for General Schedule employees and members of the Senior Executive Service.

Management

Recent Bush initiatives raise issue of lower morale

A series of recent decisions regarding pay, benefits and union rights have soured President Bush’s relationship with federal labor leaders and many of the people they represent. But the damage is not necessarily permanent.

Pay & Benefits

Feds get half-day off on Christmas Eve

Pay & Benefits

TSP limits

Attention federal workers who turn 50 next year: You’ll be able to put up to $14,000 into your Thrift Savings Plan account in 2003. But don’t worry about that yet.

Pay & Benefits

Cape Codders lose locality pay battle

The Bush administration has rejected a recommendation to boost the salaries of federal workers in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Pay & Benefits

Bush administration mulls 2 percent raise in 2004

Federal employees would get a 2 percent pay raise in 2004, the smallest pay raise in a decade, under plans being weighed by the Bush administration.

Pay & Benefits

Closing time

Two chances to change your benefits package end on Dec. 31.

Pay & Benefits

Planning ahead

Doing your homework on long-term care insurance pays.

Management

White House restores bonuses for appointees

Political appointees throughout the federal government may receive cash bonuses to reward them for outstanding work, the White House said Wednesday.

Pay & Benefits

Bush moves to limit pay raise to 3.1 percent next year

President Bush has acted to limit the pay increase for civilian federal employees to 3.1 percent next year, with no locality pay raises.

Pay & Benefits

Holidaze

An extra day off at Christmas? Don’t count on it.

Defense

Homeland employees’ jobs, pay safe for at least a year

Homeland Security Department employees will be able to keep their jobs and current pay rates for at least a year after they transfer from their current agencies to the new department, Office of Personnel Management officials said Tuesday.

Defense

Homeland officials must work with employees on civil service rules

The Homeland Security Department’s leaders must consult with employee organizations before making any changes to civil service rules for the department’s 170,000 employees, under the law creating the new Cabinet-level agency.