Management

Pay Potential

Performance-based raises could stifle employees more than motivate them.

Pay & Benefits

Retirement Made EZ

A look at how the self-serve electronic benefits resource will work.

Pay & Benefits

Union opposes nomination of Treasury official to IRS board

President Bush nominates Kenneth Carfine, a department assistant secretary, to fill the employee representative seat on oversight group.

Pay & Benefits

Fair Trade

Members of the Thrift Savings Plan advisory council comment on new restrictions to interfund transfers.

Pay & Benefits

GAO to seek input from employees on changes to new pay system

Acting comptroller general says feedback is necessary to making the system "transparent and inclusive."

Pay & Benefits

OPM adds substance abuse services to federal health plan

Most employees’ insurance will cover a medical procedure that screens for alcohol and drug abuse.

Pay & Benefits

Panel approves bill to restore back raises to GAO employees

Legislation would offer lump sum to analysts who were denied salary increases under new pay system.

Pay & Benefits

OPM touts success of new electronic retirement system

Under RetireEZ, 34 retirees received an accurate annuity payment within 30 days, agency says.

News And Analysis

Pay Potential

Performance-based raises could stifle employees more than motivate them.

Pay & Benefits

TSP stock funds post losses in March

Less-risky funds show minimal gains for the month.

Pay & Benefits

GAO questions progress on retirement claims system

Watchdog agency says OPM report on new self-service benefits system is incomplete.

Pay & Benefits

National Nuclear Security Administration to launch pay for performance

Five-year pilot project will put nearly 2,000 workers into broad paybands.

Pay & Benefits

Healthy Choice?

A study shows that high-deductible health plans have done little to crack down on rising costs.

Defense

TSA makes more modifications to screener pay system

Administrator says new pay-for-performance system has become “far too complicated.”

Pay & Benefits

Study: agencies should capitalize on strengths to attract mid-level hires

New employees in upper ranks view their agencies more favorably than their previous employers.

Pay & Benefits

Generations are in sync on quality of work life, says panel

Leadership and pay flexibility are linchpins to hiring and keeping a young, diverse workforce.

Pay & Benefits

OPM seeks enhanced hearing benefits in federal health plan

Move would follow last year’s move by most FEHBP carriers to provide hearing benefits to children up to age 22.

Tech

Younger employees present challenge to information security, study shows

New generation of workers has more lax attitudes about technology than their older colleagues.

Pay & Benefits

TSP trading activity down, officials say

Proposed plan to limit interfund transfers is showing results.

Pay & Benefits

Lawmakers seek remedy for GAO pay reform

Legislation would restore raises to hundreds of agency employees.