Management
Effort to adjust federal staffing overseas stalled
The government has little to show for a two-year effort aimed at “rightsizing” the federal workforce serving overseas, the General Accounting Office has found. But the Bush administration may force a reshuffling of civil servants abroad in coming years.
Pay & Benefits
Bill pushes loans, tuition reimbursement for national security needs
Just as heavy federal investment in science and math education helped win the Cold War, some lawmakers want a similar education investment to help America win the war against terrorism.
Pay & Benefits
Locality pay decision coming
How much will federal workers' locality pay be next year?
Pay & Benefits
Feds don’t need paid parental leave, OPM says
Federal agencies don’t need a new benefit offering paid leave to federal parents when they have a baby or adopt a child, a new Office of Personnel Management study says.
Pay & Benefits
TSP ‘catch-up’ bill introduced in House
Federal employees aged 50 and older would be able to contribute an extra $1,000 to their Thrift Savings Plan accounts next year if Congress passes a bill introduced in the House this week.
News
Reagan Building highlights security vs. public access debate
Fearing a terrorist attack, U.S. Agency for International Development workers at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington want to close the parking garage off from the public.
Pay & Benefits
Planning annual leave
Starbucks is already serving coffee in festive holiday cups. You know what that means. It’s time to start planning your annual leave schedule for 2002.
News
Foreign Service officers push for more discipline
Foreign Service officers are pushing for more discipline and better training for their elite diplomatic corps.
Pay & Benefits
OPM revamps pay rules for Alaska, Hawaii, territories
The Office of Personnel Management has announced new procedures for setting pay rates for federal employees in Alaska, Hawaii and U.S. overseas territories.
Pay & Benefits
President Bush signs 4.6 percent federal pay raise into law
Federal workers will get an average 4.6 percent pay raise in January, under a bill signed into law by President Bush on Monday.
Management
Democrat scorns Bush’s Freedom to Manage plan
President Bush’s plan to create a fast-track process for changing federal management laws would be an unprecedented executive branch power grab, a key Democratic lawmaker said Tuesday.
Pay & Benefits
Healthy ideas
Readers’ ideas for improving the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. Plus: Does the TSP have shares or units?
Management
Justice Department streamlines, reorganizes to focus on terrorism
Attorney General John Ashcroft on Thursday announced a major reorganization of the Justice Department and its bureaus aimed at making counterterrorism the department’s top priority.
Pay & Benefits
Three new locality pay areas may debut in 2002
Federal workers in three metropolitan areas may get an extra bump in pay next year if President Bush’s advisors give special locality pay increases to them.
Management
Federal agencies to get red light, green light evaluations
President Bush is trading box scores for management scores—in the form of a scorecard his administration will use to rate federal agencies.
Pay & Benefits
The 2003 pay raise
With the 2002 pay raise almost wrapped up, the battle over the 2003 pay raise has begun.
Pay & Benefits
House makes long-term care insurance tax-free
Federal employees’ long-term care insurance would be free from state and local taxes, under a bill passed by the House on Tuesday.
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