Pay & Benefits

OPM enters management reform debate

Office of Personnel Management Director Kay Coles James marked her entrance into the debate over the future of the federal workforce this week.

Pay & Benefits

Pay deadline looms

President Bush has until the end of the day tomorrow to decide what he wants to do about federal employees' pay next year.

Pay & Benefits

OPM chief blasts General Schedule pay system

The government’s system of classifying and paying workers is outdated and needs reform, Office of Personnel Management Director Kay Coles James said Tuesday.

Pay & Benefits

OPM pushes new kind of buyout

Federal employees could be eligible for $25,000 buyouts--but only if agencies say they don't have the right skills for today's government.

Management

Administration unveils targeted management agenda

A strapped military health care system, error-prone student aid programs, and substandard public housing are some of the specific federal management problems President Bush pledged to correct in his management agenda released Saturday.

Management

White House to propose increased use of pay banding, bonuses

The Bush administration will soon propose legislation to increase the use of pay banding, hiring bonuses and other workforce restructuring tools across the federal government, Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director Sean O’Keefe said Tuesday.

Pay & Benefits

COLA checkup

Cost-of-living adjustment news for 44,000 federal workers and millions of retirees. Plus, no COLAs for most federal workers.

Pay & Benefits

Dems call GOP leader's bluff on patients' bill of rights for feds

Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla., may have simply been trying to make a point when he introduced a measure that would make a proposed patients' bill of rights apply to federal employees, but now Democrats are saying they back the idea.

Pay & Benefits

TSP peek-a-boo

Take a look at some recent Thrift Savings Plan statistics.

Pay & Benefits

Pay raise fray

How a 4.6 percent federal pay raise has developed over the past 10 months--and where it's headed next.