Pay & Benefits
Lawmaker pledges more oversight of FEHBP drug costs
Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., calls current system ‘a scam.’
Pay & Benefits
Bill would allow kids to remain in the federal employee health plan longer
House member renews push to increase cutoff age for coverage of dependent children from 22 to 25.
Pay & Benefits
House resuscitates FERS sick leave fix
Lawmakers plan to roll federal retirement reforms stripped out of previous legislation into Defense authorization bill.
Oversight
Metro crash hits close to home for NOAA
Commutes to Silver Spring, Md., campus are disrupted by train collision, but no major injuries are reported among workforce.
Pay & Benefits
Cost of CSRS retirement fix pegged at $40 million over 10 years
But Congressional Budget Office says bill to allow agencies to rehire retirees is budget-neutral.
Pay & Benefits
Keeping Hope Alive
There’s a chance retirement benefits left out of the tobacco regulation bill will be resurrected later this year.
Pay & Benefits
Panel backs bill that could spell end of Defense pay system
Measure requiring the Pentagon to report on why the National Security Personnel System shouldn’t be abolished in a year now goes to the full House.
Features
The People Shuffle
The federal workforce is shifting and growing at a fierce rate, and human capital chiefs are in the middle of it.
Defense
Lawmakers could deal Pentagon pay system another blow
Legislative provision would move NSPS employees back to the General Schedule unless Defense demonstrated improvements.
Pay & Benefits
Bills would boost leave and retirement benefits for administrative judges
Those in certain judicial posts are getting shortchanged compared with federal executives, critics say.
Pay & Benefits
Tobacco bill heads to Obama without sick leave fix
The House overwhelmingly voted on Friday to accept the Senate’s version of the legislation without federal retirement reforms.
Pay & Benefits
Sick leave fix is not likely to reappear in tobacco bill
Majority leader says House may accept Senate version of legislation, which leaves out some federal pay and benefits reforms.
Pay & Benefits
Virginia lawmaker suggests bottom-up approach to pay reform
Employees are more likely to buy into a new pay system if they have a say in its development, Connolly says.
Pay & Benefits
Bill advances with TSP reforms, but not sick leave fix
Senate’s version of tobacco legislation leaves out provision that would allow FERS employees to cash out unused sick time at retirement.
Pay & Benefits
Senate climate favors paid parental leave bill, supporters say
Legislation providing federal benefit so far has not provoked the kind opposition it faced in the House.
Defense
House approves provision letting TSA employees wear protective gear
Union says managers were preventing airport screeners from taking adequate precautions during the swine flu scare.
Pay & Benefits
Account Management
FAQs on the benefits of accounts for TSP enrollees’ surviving spouses are answered.
Pay & Benefits
Parental leave act moves closer to law
House passes measure granting federal employees four weeks of paid leave for the birth of a child, defeats GOP amendment intended to defray costs.
Pay & Benefits
Panel reviewing Pentagon’s pay system announces meetings
Group will collect input from personnel experts and members of the public in late June.
Pay & Benefits
Report finds widespread enrollment in pricey prescription drug plans
Choosing a co-insurance plan could add thousands of dollars to the annual cost of specialty drugs to treat chronic or life-threatening illnesses.
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