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Pay Plan Pressure

Management

Listen and Learn

Leaders must recognize that they, too, can learn by listening to employees.

Management

Agency hiring methods called ineffective

Price of poor assessment of candidates includes higher turnover, lost productivity and greater absenteeism.

News

Executives' association challenges conflict-of-interest interpretation

Office of Government Ethics limits work activities of executives who take positions on Senior Executives Association board.

Social Services

Privacy’s Protectors

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Defending Liberties

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When Leaders Listen

Pay & Benefits

More workers would get locality pay under OPM proposal

About 15,000 employees in outlying areas around big cities could win eligibility for additional locality pay.

Defense

Defense fine-tunes new personnel system regulations

Union bargaining will be limited and civilian personnel rules will be more flexible.

Features

How Government Has Changed

Pay & Benefits

Private sector steps in to help agencies with hiring

Agency officials hope the hiring makeovers will yield significant benefits by the end of 2005.

Pay & Benefits

More mid-career government jobs going to private sector workers

But the number of jobs open to outside applicants dwindled in 2003, study finds.

Features

Wanted: Better, Faster Hiring

News And Analysis

Testy About Testing

News

Critics: Details about new Pentagon personnel system are scarce

Coalition of 35 unions accuse Defense of refusing to negotiate and not sharing information.

Pay & Benefits

Unions seek to force DHS to keep negotiating on personnel rules

Labor leaders lobby members of Congress to put pressure on Homeland Security officials to extend discussions.

Pay & Benefits

Senior executives fear new salary rules will roll back job protections

Group asks House leader to push for revision of regulations.

Pay & Benefits

Union fights decision to change work schedules for some CMS employees

After impasses panel rules in favor of management on 25 of 26 issues, AFGE files motion for reconsideration.