Pay & Benefits
Extra day off after Christmas likely for feds
Presidents often grant a bonus day or half-day of vacation when the holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday.
Pay & Benefits
TSA announces 2009 performance-based payouts
Roughly three-quarters of employees under the agency’s new pay system will receive performance-based bonuses on top of the governmentwide increase.
Pay & Benefits
Outlook for public service academy brightens
Obama and many of the top candidates for jobs in his administration support creating such an institution.
Oversight
Twenty percent of senior executives unprepared for transition
Some high-level career officials can’t cite any presidential transition activities at their agencies, survey finds.
Oversight
Agencies send ‘hot lists’ of key issues to Obama review teams
Summaries are designed to help the incoming administration home in on urgent challenges.
Pay & Benefits
Merit board links employee engagement and productivity
Study also finds that higher salaries and education correlate with greater involvement in work.
Oversight
Nonprofits urge Obama to focus on program performance
Coalition also calls for more investment in human resources and the strategic use of technology to enhance service delivery.
Pay & Benefits
Health Plan Checkup
Employees should do their homework before enrolling in a new health plan during open season.
Pay & Benefits
Executives association reaches out to Obama administration
Partnership with career officials will help the incoming administration achieve its goals, group says.
Pay & Benefits
Rule change paves way for quicker promotions
Agency says eliminating time-in-grade requirement will help government officials recruit and retain highly qualified workers.
Pay & Benefits
Employee groups lay out priorities for next president, Congress
Organizations will continue to fight the Pentagon’s pay overhaul and will push benefits bills, including one to increase the government’s share of health premiums.
Defense
Union hardens its stance on Pentagon personnel system
AFGE claims new rules restrict collective bargaining.
Pay & Benefits
Obama win reignites push to organize airport screeners
Federal unions hope Democratic leadership will open door to collective bargaining rights for Transportation Security Administration employees.
Pay & Benefits
Feds denied extra hours off to vote
The Office of Personnel Management says agencies already have authority to adjust excused absence policies.
News And Analysis
Goals for Giving
The CFC appeals to employees and eases the donation process online.
Pay & Benefits
Bidding opens on 2010 pay raise at 2.9 percent
Change in Employment Cost Index has become the de facto baseline for recommended average federal salary increases.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers push to give feds an extra two hours off to vote
Traffic, heavy voter turnout, and changes in federal and state election laws could cause delays at polls, two Virginia congressmen say.
Pay & Benefits
Sick Leave Slowdown
Legislation allowing more federal employees to cash out accrued sick leave at retirement isn't dead yet.
Defense
VA nurses are in short supply
GAO recommends adopting a new staffing system and expanding access to alternative work schedules for inpatient nurses.
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