Oversight
White House: Performance chief to serve as acting head of OMB
Jeffrey Zients will fill in until a permanent replacement is found for Jack Lew, who is leaving to become Obama’s chief of staff.
Oversight
Unions wary of Obama’s consolidation plans
Federal employee groups worry about potential layoffs, workforce reductions.
Oversight
New senior executive performance measurements emphasize ‘leadership qualities’
SES employees will get input from colleagues at a variety of levels, official says.
Pay & Benefits
GSA requests buyout authority
Agency seeks to offer the incentives to less than 5 percent of its workforce.
Oversight
Veterans of Clinton administration, Wall Street floated as possible OMB directors
Jack Lew named next White House chief of staff.
Oversight
Administration unveils new senior executive performance measurements
Process aims to streamline how top federal managers are evaluated.
Defense
Pentagon plan will affect personnel; details to come in budget request
Benefits will be protected, but department has an obligation to control costs, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says.
Pay & Benefits
Retirement funds improve some at the end of 2011
International investments and those in small and midsize companies continue to lose ground.
Defense
Congress passes Afghanistan-Pakistan study group measure opposed by Panetta, Dempsey
Panel would be modeled after the 2006 Iraq Study Group.
Defense
Customs and Border Protection chief steps down
Alan Bersin’s resignation will be effective Dec. 30; CBPs deputy commissioner will fill in until a successor is appointed.
Oversight
Biden urged to get involved in union contract talks with TSA
House Democrat asks the vice president to help get negotiations 'on track' and 'deliver an equitable and balanced arbitration system.'
Defense
Union calls TSA contract negotiations ‘very discouraging’
AFGE president says the agency’s definition of third-party review of employee grievances does not pass ‘smell test.’
Pay & Benefits
TSP participation declining
Separations and ‘hardship withdrawals’ are among the factors cited.
Defense
Proposal aims to offset costs of sequestration through staff reductions
Bill would downsize the federal workforce by 10 percent and use the savings to counteract one year of defense and nondefense spending cuts.
Pay & Benefits
Veterans hiring reaches new heights
Twenty-eight and a half percent of new hires in 2011 were veterans -- the highest percentage in 20 years, OPM reports.
Pay & Benefits