The House civil service subcommittee recently held hearings into creation of a “cafeteria”-style federal benefits program, in which employees could choose among the benefit offerings most valuable to them. The Judicial branch, which operates under many personnel policies separate from those applying to the Executive branch, already has such a program in place. For a look at that system, which could provide an important precedent for any such program in Executive agencies go to https://www.fedweek.com/HotFreeNews/default.asp for the full story in the hot free info section of our website.