Pay & Benefits
Homeland Security unveils performance pay plan
Homeland Security Department officials said Friday that they want to transfer as many as 8,000 employees to a performance-based pay system in fiscal 2005.
Pay & Benefits
Pentagon Parley
Navy Secretary Gordon England will serve as point man for negotiations with organized labor over controversial proposed changes to the Pentagon’s personnel system.
Tech
Delays push IRS to punish contractor
Continued delays and budget problems with the IRS modernization project have forced the agency to open future projects to competition.
Pay & Benefits
OPM to play larger role in Defense personnel overhaul
OPM did not help develop the Pentagon’s personnel policy proposal sent to union leaders last week, but the agency is now planning to focus on the Defense Department’s personnel overhaul, a senior OPM official said Wednesday.
Management
Administration says holding down pay raises helps agencies' budgets
The Bush administration wants to hold the 2005 civil servant pay raise at 1.5 percent because it does not want to saddle federal agencies with unfunded mandates, an administration official said Friday.
Pay & Benefits
Pay Raise Malaise
Federal workers are up in arms over President Bush’s proposed 1.5 percent raise for civilian federal employees in his fiscal 2005 budget.
Defense
Pentagon scraps plan for online voting in 2004 elections
The Pentagon has canceled plans to allow military personnel to vote online in the November 2004 presidential elections, a Defense Department spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.
News
Bush proposes 1.5 percent pay raise for federal workers in 2005
President Bush’s fiscal 2005 budget proposal includes a 1.5 percent pay increase for civilian workers and a 3.5 percent pay boost for military personnel.
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