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.

Pay & Benefits

Payband Aid

A mainstay of the personnel reform movement is a mystery to many.

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.