Pay & Benefits
Honest Evaluations
The key to pay for performance is providing meaningful reviews of employees' work -- and giving them the opportunity to improve.
Pay & Benefits
Extending Benefits
Lawmakers re-launch effort to grant same-sex domestic partner benefits to federal employees; also, OPM makes retirement records electronic.
Pay & Benefits
Performance Pay at VHA
The Veterans Health Administration is in the midst of a long-running effort to link employee pay raises to job performance.
Pay & Benefits
Raising Objections
President Bush has acted to hold down federal pay increases next year. He could have taken a different route.
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Limited Trading
Thrift Savings Plan participants react to new restrictions on the number of interfund transfers allotted each month.
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Telework Is a Tool
Treating it as a benefit misses its potential to improve overall performance.
Pay & Benefits
Sick Leave Saga
FERS employees want credit for their unused sick leave in retirement. Lawmakers may be listening.
Pay & Benefits
A Price to Pay
Locality pay rates in the Los Angeles area may have had hidden costs during the wildfires.
Pay & Benefits
Consumer-Driven Care
The upcoming open season for federal benefits will feature more high-deductible health plan options. Are they right for you?
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In Benefits Feds Trust
Comments on a story about Hillary Clinton’s health care proposal indicate that at least some federal employees are very protective of their benefits.
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Pay Portions
Federal employees in the Washington, D.C., area may see the highest overall pay increase next year.
Pay & Benefits
Stepping In
Hands-on management is critical not only to rating employees effectively, but to motivating them.
Pay & Benefits
Offsetting Debt
New loan forgiveness program may be a great benefit, if you’re willing to stick around for another 10 years.
Pay & Benefits
Making Better Pay Decisions
As pay-for-performance systems spread, managers who make compensation decisions need to be armed with as much data as possible.
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Top Dollar Talent
Agencies are making big strides in offering incentives to new and seasoned employees.
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Cost Control
Employee groups and agency officials differ on the best way to keep prescription drug costs in line.
Pay & Benefits
Reserve Returns
New court decision provides relief to federal employee military reservists who were improperly charged for military leave dating back to 1980.
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Benefits Bills
A look at how your federal pay and benefits could change when Congress returns from its August recess.
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Continuing Coverage
Union leader says the government should consider letting dependent children stay on federal employee health insurance until age 25.
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