Pay & Benefits
Navy investigates misuse of comp time, leave rules
Two top executives at a Navy facility in Rhode Island have been suspended amid an investigation into employee misuse of compensatory time and leave rules at a 50,000-worker Navy command.
Pay & Benefits
Retention tension
The Bush administration has squashed a plan to let federal agencies use retention allowances to stop other agencies from hiring away their employees.
Management
Public support for federal workers falls to pre-Sept. 11 level
Americans support federal workers and trust the government less today than they did immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a new survey shows.
Pay & Benefits
TSP board proposes new rule on death benefit
After you die, your spouse would be able to roll over your Thrift Savings Plan nest egg into a 401k account or into his or her own TSP account, under a proposed rule issued last week.
Defense
Pay raise sought to stem law enforcement exodus
Park Police and uniformed Secret Service agents would get a pay boost under a House bill introduced this week.
Pay & Benefits
Relocation reality
Federal relocation benefits look good on paper, but many employees say they never get them.
Management
IRS chief reflects on public leadership lessons
To succeed in the public sector, private-sector executives who come to work in the federal government need to get people by their side who understand the government’s budgeting, procurement and personnel rules, IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti said Tuesday.
Pay & Benefits
SEC launches new pay system against union wishes
Employees and managers at the Securities and Exchange Commission will get pay raises of as much as 11 percent this week under a new pay system, but the SEC employees’ union isn’t happy about the new system.
Pay & Benefits
New TSP system set for September
The $102 billion Thrift Savings Plan will have a new computer system in September that will update the value of federal workers’ and military personnel’s 401k-style retirement accounts every day, the TSP board announced Friday.
Pay & Benefits
Central e-learning site for federal workers takes shape
A Transportation Department Web site will be transformed into a one-stop e-learning portal for workers throughout the federal government, an Office of Personnel Management official said.
Pay & Benefits
Law enforcement officers seek higher pay
Federal law enforcement officers would get higher overtime pay under a bill that will be introduced in the House Thursday.
Management
OMB program reviews could lead to cuts
Federal programs that budget reviewers decide are ineffective could lose funding or face elimination next year.
Pay & Benefits
Debt crisis forces Treasury to tap employee retirement funds again
For the second time this year, the Treasury Department will suspend daily investments of billions of dollars of federal employees’ retirement funds to avoid breaking the federal debt ceiling, Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill said Tuesday.
Pay & Benefits
Bill would make long-term care premiums tax-deductible
Federal employees and other Americans should be able to deduct the cost of long-term care insurance premiums from their tax bills, lawmakers and retirees said at a Capitol Hill press conference Thursday.
Pay & Benefits
Panel investigates fraud in injured workers program
A House hearing on Thursday aimed at investigating injured government workers’ complaints about poor customer service from the federal workers’ compensation program instead focused on ways to prevent civil servants from defrauding the $2 billion-a-year program.
Pay & Benefits
OPM chief: Talk about the pay system, not salaries
Office of Personnel Management Director Kay Coles James doesn’t want to talk about whether federal employees should be paid more. She wants to talk about the system under which federal employees get paid.
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