Pay & Benefits
Life-cycle funds could become TSP default option
Indecisive investors would have their contributions automatically dispersed among existing TSP funds.
Pay & Benefits
TSP to open retirement fund management to competitive bids
All four managed funds have been run by Barclays Global Investors since inception.
Pay & Benefits
Retirees to get 4.1 percent cost-of-living adjustment
Increase for members of Civil Service Retirement System is highest in more than a decade.
Pay & Benefits
Figuring Your Locality Pay
The lowdown on what the Federal Salary Council's 2006 locality pay recommendations mean for you.
Pay & Benefits
Senate moves to close pay gap for feds called to military duty
Amendment marks the fourth try at getting rule enacted.
Management
Implementation cited as biggest obstacle to personnel reforms
Many policies already in place are underused, observers say.
Management
Unions in face-off to represent Customs, Border employees
U.S. Customs and Border Protection workers will choose between National Treasury Employees Union and American Federation of Government Employees.
Management
Judge rejects DHS attempt at revising personnel rules
Rules still don’t go far enough in protecting collective bargaining rights, federal judge rules.
Tech
Online forum aims to give civil servants a voice
Organizers hope to use the Internet to examine the best and worst government practices.
Management
Lawmakers consider splitting governmentwide personnel reform bill
Labor relations portion could be separated from effort to craft new compensation system.
Pay & Benefits
Salary council releases locality pay recommendations
Average increase for 2006 would be 1.21 percent, on top of base pay increase of 2.1 percent.
Management
Pentagon personnel reforms on the brink of completion
Labor relations rules scheduled to be in place in less than three months.
Management
Agency decides pay banding is not the answer
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight switches from system with seven broad pay bands to more traditional structure with 18 pay grades.
Pay & Benefits
Safety Deposit
You don’t automatically get annuity credit for military service when you retire.
Management
MSPB: Supervisors don’t fire poor performers in probationary period
A third of new employees are not told about probationary period.
Management
Revised DHS labor relations rules under scrutiny
Judge questions whether revisions go far enough in providing binding contracts.
Management
Demonstration projects find success in personnel reform
Opponents argue that small-scale experiments are not applicable governmentwide.
Management
Whistleblower protections in limbo
Labor Department weighs whether certain protections apply to federal employees.
Pay & Benefits
Life After Government: Financial Advice
In the last of our series on retirement issues, Karen Rutzick reports on what you need, where to get it and how much it costs.
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