Management
Lack of IRS nominee raises concerns
IRS watchers are becoming more and more concerned about how long it is taking the White House to nominate a commissioner to replace outgoing IRS chief Charles Rossotti.
Pay & Benefits
Transit quandary
An agency orders an employee to pay back half of his monthly vanpool benefit. Outrage ensues.
Defense
Law officers flocking to transportation security agency
Federal law enforcement agencies are facing a hiring crunch because they've lost more than 1,400 officers to the rapidly expanding Transportation Security Administration.
News
OPM wants “verve” in vacancy announcements
Federal job announcements need some sprucing, an Office of Personnel Management official said in a recent letter to the government’s human resources leaders.
Pay & Benefits
Better buyouts
Better buyouts may be an added bonus of the new Department of Homeland Security.
Defense
Group suggests compromise on homeland security personnel rules
A nonprofit group on Wednesday proposed a set of civil service reforms that could serve as a compromise in the battle between unions representing federal employees and the Bush administration over personnel rules for the new Department of Homeland Security.
Pay & Benefits
New site offers free online courses for federal workers
Federal workers can take free online courses on about 30 subjects ranging from project management to coping with stress through a government-sponsored Web site that debuted Tuesday.
News
Two in five college students would consider federal service
Forty-one percent of college students are considering a career with the federal government, a new survey of 1,000 American juniors and seniors found.
Defense
Powell asks head of State’s visa program to retire
Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday asked the head of the State Department’s embattled visa program to retire.
Pay & Benefits
Trust and pay
Federal workers are skeptical about proposals to give managers more power over their pay. Managers aren’t sure they want that power either.
Management
Panel begins public debate over printing office future
The heads of the Office of Management and Budget and the Government Printing Office clashed Wednesday over the Bush administration’s plan to eliminate a rule that forces federal agencies to go through the printing office for printing services.
Management
Printing office predicts layoffs if monopoly ends
The Government Printing Office would have to lay off 1,500 of its 3,000 employees if executive branch departments stop using the agency’s printing services, GPO officials said recently in response to a Bush administration effort to end the office’s monopoly on government printing.
Pay & Benefits
Long-term plans
OPM unveiled new features of the long-term care insurance program this week.
Pay & Benefits
Employees won’t see back pay in special rates case for a year
The 212,000 current and former federal employees to whom the government owes $173.5 million in special rate back pay will have to wait at least another year before they collect the money, according to the National Treasury Employees Union.
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