Defense
Personnel reform, but no layoffs, envisioned for new department
No federal employees would be laid off if a 170,000-person Department of Homeland Security is created by consolidating dozens of existing federal offices, the Bush administration said.
Pay & Benefits
The loneliest number
How many federal workers got student loan help from Uncle Sam last year?
Pay & Benefits
Navy investigates misuse of comp time, leave rules
Two top executives at a Navy facility in Rhode Island have been suspended amid an investigation into employee misuse of compensatory time and leave rules at a 50,000-worker Navy command.
Pay & Benefits
Retention tension
The Bush administration has squashed a plan to let federal agencies use retention allowances to stop other agencies from hiring away their employees.
Pay & Benefits
Public service grows in appeal among young people
Young Americans are more interested in entering government service now than they were five years ago, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Council for Excellence in Government.
Pay & Benefits
TSP board proposes new rule on death benefit
After you die, your spouse would be able to roll over your Thrift Savings Plan nest egg into a 401k account or into his or her own TSP account, under a proposed rule issued last week.
Defense
Pay raise sought to stem law enforcement exodus
Park Police and uniformed Secret Service agents would get a pay boost under a House bill introduced this week.
Pay & Benefits
Relocation reality
Federal relocation benefits look good on paper, but many employees say they never get them.
Pay & Benefits
Cafeteria benefit plans draw fire at hearing
A House subcommittee chairman pushed the idea of cafeteria-style benefit plans for federal employees at a hearing Tuesday, but labor leaders said the idea would simply shift costs from the government to workers.
Pay & Benefits
SEC launches new pay system against union wishes
Employees and managers at the Securities and Exchange Commission will get pay raises of as much as 11 percent this week under a new pay system, but the SEC employees’ union isn’t happy about the new system.
Pay & Benefits
New TSP system set for September
The $102 billion Thrift Savings Plan will have a new computer system in September that will update the value of federal workers’ and military personnel’s 401k-style retirement accounts every day, the TSP board announced Friday.
Pay & Benefits
Central e-learning site for federal workers takes shape
A Transportation Department Web site will be transformed into a one-stop e-learning portal for workers throughout the federal government, an Office of Personnel Management official said.
Pay & Benefits