Impasses panel takes up SEC pay dispute

• Brian Friel
• August 8, 2002

Transit quandary

An agency orders an employee to pay back half of his monthly vanpool benefit. Outrage ensues.

• Brian Friel
• August 8, 2002

Bill would stabilize funding for veterans health care system

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• August 6, 2002

Better buyouts

Better buyouts may be an added bonus of the new Department of Homeland Security.

• Brian Friel
• August 1, 2002

Group suggests compromise on homeland security personnel rules

A nonprofit group on Wednesday proposed a set of civil service reforms that could serve as a compromise in the battle between unions representing federal employees and the Bush administration over personnel rules for the new Department of Homeland Security.

• Brian Friel
• July 31, 2002

Agencies would get buyout authority under Senate homeland security bill

• Jason Peckenpaugh
• July 30, 2002

House approves pay raise for law enforcement officers

• Kellie Lunney
• July 29, 2002

Free telecommuting trial period attracts feds

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 25, 2002

House votes to block OMB competitive sourcing initiative

• Jason Peckenpaugh
• July 25, 2002

A $130 million lift

Federal employees are cashing in on the transit benefit program.

• Brian Friel
• July 25, 2002

Senate panel rejects move to loosen civil service protections

Debate in the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on a proposal to create a Department of Homeland Security moved swiftly Wednesday, until senators took up the controversial issue of civil service protections for employees.

• Mark Wegner, April Fulton, Brody Mullins, Geoff Earle and Charlie Mitchell
• July 24, 2002

Unions crank up lobbying effort on homeland bill

• Charlie Mitchell
• July 24, 2002

New site offers free online courses for federal workers

Federal workers can take free online courses on about 30 subjects ranging from project management to coping with stress through a government-sponsored Web site that debuted Tuesday.

• Brian Friel
• July 23, 2002

House leader defends congressional pay raises

• Congress Daily
• July 22, 2002

Bush urges waiver of civil service rules in homeland department

• Keith Koffler and Mark Wegner
• July 22, 2002

Postal Service ends controversial bonus program for managers

• Matthew Weinstock
• July 22, 2002

House panel votes down civil service protections

Two attempts to give standard civil service protections to federal employees at the proposed Homeland Security Department were defeated at a House hearing Friday.

• Brody Mullins and Charlie Mitchell
• July 19, 2002

Unions pleased with civil service protections in Lieberman bill

• Geoff Earle and Charlie Mitchell
• July 19, 2002

New centers promote telecommuting among federal employees

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 19, 2002

Deal on civil service issues eludes House homeland panel

House Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a deal Thursday on civil service protections for the 170,000 employees of the proposed Homeland Security Department—setting up a partisan clash over the issue in a markup Friday.

• Brody Mullins and Charlie Mitchell
• July 19, 2002