Oversight
Union files unfair labor practice charge against GAO chief
Group claims Comptroller General David M. Walker has made inappropriate statements undermining employees' rights to organize.
Pay & Benefits
Payband Balancing Act
Some advice for agencies on striking a balance among efficiency, equity and employee acceptance in pay for performance systems.
Defense
State Department urged to beef up mental health support
Foreign Service employees returning from the Middle East may decide not to seek help for emotional problems due to fear of retaliation, officials testify.
Pay & Benefits
TSP board rejects divestiture proposals
Board members strongly oppose legislation that would prohibit investments in companies that do business in countries supporting genocide and terror.
Pay & Benefits
Auditors uncover fraud in federal benefit programs
Inspector general secures the return of more than $106 million to employee health program.
Defense
House blocks funding for DHS personnel reforms
Senate committee approves only $5 million of $15 million President Bush requested for the system in fiscal 2008.
Oversight
Senators urge appropriators to boost SSA administrative funds
Budget resolution calls for an additional $430 million beyond President Bush’s request, to address backlog of disability claims.
Pay & Benefits
Survivor Savings
Employee group representative proposes allowing surviving spouses to hold on to TSP accounts.
Pay & Benefits
Panel approves student loan forgiveness for public servants
Bill seeks to update 1993 law that authorized income-contingent loan repayment programs.
Pay & Benefits
House appropriators approve 3.5 percent civilian pay raise
Move follows authorization of equal increase for military service members.
Pay & Benefits
Employee groups back automatic TSP enrollment, new default fund
Officials decide to hold off on three other potential changes, including restrictions on where funds are invested.
Defense
Homeland Security launches graduate academy
The 18-month program is free, but students must complete two years of service at their agencies upon graduation.
Oversight
Firm outlines steps to successful workforce reforms
Agencies implementing pay for performance need to focus more on how to handle subpar workers, consultant says.
Oversight
Survey finds increased satisfaction with federal benefit programs
The Thrift Savings Plan, employee and retiree health benefits and retirement annuities fare the best.
Defense
Appropriators block funding for DHS personnel reforms
Congress approved $20 million for the overhaul for fiscal 2007; Bush administration has requested $15 million for next year.
Pay & Benefits
Auditors question Pentagon projections for health care savings
Increasing TRICARE enrollment fees and deductibles is unlikely to achieve the $9.8 billion in savings Defense expects, GAO finds.
Pay & Benefits
Riskier TSP funds bring greatest gains for May
Fund made up of fixed-income bonds was the only option to lose ground.
Pay & Benefits
Advocates sketch plan for public service academy
Blueprint sets academy apart from existing programs, addressing recent criticism that a new institution is unnecessary.
Pay & Benefits
OPM pushes to extend locality pay to Alaska, Hawaii
New proposal seeks to gradually replace cost-of-living allowances with locality payments for areas outside the contiguous states.
Oversight
GAO to challenge eligibility of employees to unionize
Agency is hiring private legal counsel, plans to contest petitions of more than a third of employees who filed for an election.
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