News
August brings respectable returns in TSP funds
International investments continue to be strongest performers.
Defense
Pay-for-performance warrior exits the battlefield
As George Nesterczuk leaves the Office of Personnel Management, his efforts to reshape the Defense and Homeland Security bureaucracies are far from complete.
Features
Tilting at Windmills
George Nesterczuk exits the Office of Personnel Management, his efforts to reshape the Defense and Homeland Security bureaucracies far from complete.
Pay & Benefits
Moving Ahead
The Bush administration isn’t waiting for legislation to expand pay-for-performance efforts in federal agencies.
Pay & Benefits
Bush declines to offer alternative pay raise plan
Inaction by Aug. 31 deadline gives de facto support for 1.7 percent across-the-board white-collar raise.
Pay & Benefits
OPM reaffirms dental, vision contract awards
Blue Cross Blue Shield again shut out of dental contracts; new benefits on track to be offered in November.
Management
Agencies ordered to probe employee satisfaction
OPM prescribes questions for newly required annual employee survey.
Management
Commerce expands pay-for-performance project
Miami NOAA employees join union expressly to participate in new system.
Pay & Benefits
Ready, Really?
Federal employees think they’re financially prepared for retirement, but a deeper look shows otherwise.
News
OPM offers shorter, cheaper training for managers
New classes bring courses offered within government in line with outside options.
Management
Pentagon plans shift of blue-collar workers to new pay system
Defense officials bring in Federal Managers Association to consult on new rules.
Pay & Benefits
CBP continues streamlined process for awarding bonuses
Agency is sticking with its policy until it hears from the Federal Labor Relations Authority on an appeal of an arbitrator’s decision.
Pay & Benefits
OPM announces cost-of-living changes
Employees in Alaska, Puerto Rico protest comparison to Washington, D.C., to arrive at changes in salary supplements.
Management
Agencies tailor use of management fellowship program
Chief human capital officers partner with program’s administrators to identify critical needs.
Defense
DHS will not seek full appeals court review of labor decision
Department is still weighing whether to ask the Supreme Court to overturn decision rejecting key elements of its new personnel system.
Pay & Benefits
Borrowing From Yourself
You can get a low-interest loan from your Thrift Savings Plan account, but you might pay the price in retirement savings.
Pay & Benefits
OPM replaces head of electronic pension system project
The FAA’s Thomas O’Keefe steps in as the last contract is being awarded and the system gets going.
Management
EEOC chair to step down as term ends
Cari Dominguez oversaw major reorganization of agency, cuts in managerial ranks.
Management
Foreign Service recruiting effort undercut by wartime demands
Many mid-level positions in hardship locations are filled by junior officers with limited experience.
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