Pay & Benefits
Vegas Odds
Sin City could be a more affordable location for federal travelers than more buttoned-down destinations.
Oversight
Lawmakers fight policies limiting conferences in resort destinations
Nevada and Florida senators say such policies unfairly discriminate against locations that may be convenient and cost-effective.
Oversight
Senate committee will tackle Postal Service financial woes
Panel will consider on Wednesday a bill that would help the agency cover the costs of employees’ retirement health benefits.
Pay & Benefits
Language to ease rehiring of retirees makes it into Defense authorization
Senate approves Collins amendment, despite blocking other federal workforce reforms.
Oversight
Federal workforce reforms dropped from Senate Defense authorization bill
Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, vows to fight for FERS sick leave fix and locality pay in conference committee.
Oversight
Court allows challenge to intern program to go forward
Labor union is seeking to overturn the program, saying it lets agencies circumvent the merit system.
News
Report urges government to start young in cybersecurity recruiting
Agencies must build a bigger pool of job applicants, and get people interested early in their careers, analysts say.
Pay & Benefits
Facelift of TSP Web site stays on schedule
Redesign with features such as an improved retirement calculator is scheduled to be complete by 2010.
Pay & Benefits
Student Aid
A government benefit that erases student loan debt for some public servants has a few catches.
Pay & Benefits
Panel recommends reform of Pentagon pay system
Draft report supports current moratorium on NSPS conversions, but does not call for elimination of personnel system.
Pay & Benefits
Agency heads discuss possibilities for joint wellness programs
Green space, farmers markets and centralized child care are among the ideas on the table to brighten the atmosphere at four neighboring agencies.
Pay & Benefits
Pay Freezes Past
A look at previous administrations’ attempts to keep in check the salaries of top executive branch staffers.
Defense
Costs of compensating military reservists climb
Watchdog agency analyzes trends in spending on reservist pay and benefits.
Defense
House panel advances bill granting airport screeners bargaining rights
Measure also would end TSA’s pay-for-performance system and return workers to the General Schedule.
Defense
Pay and benefits legislation awaits lawmakers
Congress could vote on several measures before August recess that would affect federal pay raise, retirement and leave.
Pay & Benefits
June is a slow month for TSP
The S Fund, up 0.73 percent, posts the strongest returns for the first month of summer.
Pay & Benefits
Federal employee union leader found dead at 47
Colleagues praise Richard Brown for boosting the National Federation of Federal Employees’ stature and membership.
Pay & Benefits
Federal pay and benefits provisions missing from Senate bill
Senate version of DoD authorization does not include House-approved measures on sick leave fix, other retirement reforms.
Pay & Benefits
Agency personnel chiefs adjust to the limelight
The federal workforce is shifting and growing at a fierce rate, and human capital chiefs are in the middle of it.
Defense
Defense personnel system boasts supporters
Pay-for-performance at the Pentagon has many detractors, but also a fair share of defenders.
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