Footing the bill

Readers question why they are paying for a failed TSP contract.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 31, 2003

Agriculture civil rights chief ready to sow seeds of change

While Vernon Parker settles into his new role at the Agriculture Department, employee advocates are waiting to see how the new assistant secretary for civil rights will eradicate what they see as pervasive ethnic and gender discrimination at the department.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 30, 2003

Homeland Security may retain standard pay system

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 25, 2003

Healthier and wealthier

A key House subcommittee passes legislation allowing federal retirees to pay health premiums with pre-tax dollars.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 24, 2003

TSP leaders face Hill criticism over new computer system

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 24, 2003

House subcommittee approves GAO personnel reform bill

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 23, 2003

OPM rejects GAO recommendation to rebid jobs site contract

The Office of Personnel Management has decided to ignore a recommendation from the General Accounting Office to rebid a contract to redesign the federal jobs Web site.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 22, 2003

Judge denies contempt motion against USDA in sex harassment suit

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 21, 2003

Former IRS chiefs lament agency’s slow reform progress

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 18, 2003

Hurricane help

OPM offers a helping hand to employees hit by Hurricane Claudette.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 17, 2003

House committee to investigate TSP system

The House Government Reform Committee will review customer service problems associated with the Thrift Savings Plan’s new automated record keeping system at a July 24 hearing, a committee spokesman said Thursday.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 17, 2003

Poor performers will not fare well under GAO personnel reform plan

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 16, 2003

Bush official refutes appointee bonus critics

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 15, 2003

HHS payment records for presidential appearances incomplete

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 14, 2003

Appointee bonuses topped $1 million in 2002

The Bush administration awarded nearly $1.5 million in performance bonuses to political appointees in 2002, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 11, 2003

Follow the leader

Pentagon leaders might follow the example set by Homeland Security Department officials when it's time to implement civil service changes.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 10, 2003

Lawmakers push health premium conversion benefit for retirees, military

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 9, 2003

House approves bill protecting federal retiree drug benefit

House lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that would ensure federal retirees retain the same prescription drug benefits federal employees have after Congress approves its Medicare prescription drug legislation.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 8, 2003

Defense Travel System adds online reservation tool

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 7, 2003

Independence day

The government's watchdog agency wants a new name and more freedom to manage its workforce.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• July 3, 2003