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.