Management
OMB calls for end to printing office monopoly
Federal agencies shouldn’t have to use the Government Printing Office for printing services, President Bush’s budget director says.
Pay & Benefits
Vision and dental blues
Would you trade some of your leave benefits for subsidized vision and dental insurance?
Management
IRS, private firms try to avoid competing with each other
The Internal Revenue Service and private tax firms are working up a plan to offer free electronic tax filing to low-income Americans—and to avoid a battle between the government and the multi-billion dollar tax preparation industry.
Tech
Online job fair nets 20,000 applicants for 230 jobs
More than 20,000 people submitted applications for 230 federal technology jobs during an online job fair last week that could serve as a model for government hiring efforts.
Pay & Benefits
For 9/11, a $150 pittance
Special payments for feds at the Pentagon and World Trade Center. Plus, higher premium pay on the way.
Pay & Benefits
OPM to issue federal pay review next week
The Office of Personnel Management will issue a review of federal pay next week that officials hope will trigger a debate on potential pay reforms.
Pay & Benefits
Low staffing may hurt federal financial oversight
Low staffing levels at the federal agencies that oversee billions of dollars in investments and international trade may be hurting the government’s ability to prevent financial crimes and to enforce trade agreements, officials said at a Senate hearing Tuesday.
News
OPM chief pledges to simplify federal hiring process
Kay Coles James, the government’s top human resources official, pledged Monday to streamline the federal hiring process as part of a campaign to attract college graduates into public service.
Tech
Applicants overwhelm virtual IT job fair site
The Office of Personnel Management is adding computing power to its online IT job fair Web site because an overwhelming number of people are trying to apply for technology jobs.
Tech
Feds kick off online job fair for technology workers
Twenty-two federal agencies will try to hire 230 information technology specialists through an online job fair that the Office of Personnel Management will host from April 22 to 26.
Tech
Interior resurfaces from the pre-Internet Dark Ages
When Interior agencies lost their Internet access, employees resorted to crude business tools of the 1980s.
Pay & Benefits
Treasury restores millions to G Fund as debt crisis ends
The Treasury Department on Tuesday restored $27.7 million in interest to a federal employee retirement fund. The interest was withheld for nearly two weeks during a government debt crisis.
Pay & Benefits
Shop around
The new federal long-term care insurance program may be the best deal for you. Then again, maybe it’s not.
Pay & Benefits
Accounting games
Should the latest proposed accounting change for federal pay and benefits worry federal employees?
News
OPM targets four 'unacceptable' hiring practices
Federal agencies need to end some hiring practices that prevent a large number of qualified applicants from seeking government jobs, the head of the Office of Personnel Management said recently.
Pay & Benefits
Treasury to suspend G Fund investments
The Treasury Department will suspend daily investments of billions of dollars of federal employees’ retirement funds for two weeks to avoid breaking the federal debt ceiling, Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill said Tuesday.
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