Features
Rebooting Reform
Dismantling the embattled Defense personnel system could spark a reinvention of performance management across government.
Pay & Benefits
Obama is first president to freeze locality pay
Employee groups say proposal will strain federal workforce.
Defense
White House breach raises questions about Secret Service pay and oversight
Homeland Security requested money for more staff in its fiscal 2010 budget.
Pay & Benefits
Obama sets 2 percent civilian pay hike for 2010
Citing economic and national security emergencies, the president says Americans “would not understand or accept” higher raises.
Oversight
Pentagon pay plan's demise could pave way for broad reforms
Mandate to build a new Defense performance management system creates an opening for governmentwide changes.
Oversight
OPM extends direct hire authority for acquisition jobs
Rule could help recruit the talented acquisition workforce necessary for insourcing efforts, observers say.
Pay & Benefits
Paid parental leave touted as a way to improve retention
Family groups say stingy leave policies force federal employees to make difficult financial choices.
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