GAO: Lax oversight at housing agency led to abuse of purchase cards

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• April 16, 2003

Pentagon seeks to create new civilian personnel system

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has sent a proposal to Congress to overhaul the Defense Department’s human resources management system and transfer authority over Defense civilian employees from the Office of Personnel Management to the Pentagon.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• April 15, 2003

Senior executives wary of Bush pay proposal

Members of the Senior Executives Association remain skeptical about a Bush administration proposal to replace the six-step executive salary scale with a performance pay salary band.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• April 14, 2003

Defense recommends crisis support centers for employee families

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• April 11, 2003

Fair pay

Some lawmakers, feds are leery of pay-for-performance measures.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• April 10, 2003

OPM launches program to diversify senior executive corps

To help increase diversity in the Senior Executive Service, the Office of Personnel Management has created a new program to help develop a more diverse pool of candidates for positions in the government’s top management corps.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• April 10, 2003

Congress passes bill redirecting postal pension payments

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• April 9, 2003

Defense tests new personnel system on laboratories

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• April 7, 2003

Thrift savings skinny

Federal employees may be able to check their TSP accounts daily by summer 2003.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• April 3, 2003

Bill would close pay gap for active duty feds

Three Senate lawmakers introduced a bill Wednesday that would require the government to pay the difference between civilian and military wages for federal employees called to active duty.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• April 2, 2003

Pay reform should include input from employees, stakeholders say

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• April 1, 2003

Airport screeners question pay policy

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• March 31, 2003

Accounting error led Defense agency to outsource jobs

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• March 28, 2003

Nest egg

Federal employees will soon be able to sock away money for extra health care expenses.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• March 27, 2003

OMB releases last round of 2002 FAIR Act lists

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• March 25, 2003

Federal employees receive 1 percent locality pay for 2003

Federal civilian employees will receive an average 4.1 percent pay raise in 2003, which includes 1 percent for locality-based pay, according to an executive order issued Friday.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• March 24, 2003

Tax relief

Lawmakers want to reduce civilian and military retirees’ tax bills.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• March 20, 2003

Retroactive civil service pay raise still in limbo

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• March 20, 2003

Report lacks details on merging homeland personnel systems

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• March 18, 2003

State Department orders nonemergency employees out of Iraq

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• March 17, 2003