Employee Surveys Coming
MSPB will soon be conducting two government-wide surveys, one of them the merit principles survey, which is taken every other …More
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Through 10 months of the current count toward the January 2008 federal retiree COLA, the count stands at 2.3 percent, …More
Action on Hill Could Be More Significant
DoD has not indicated any new plan of action in light of the appeals court’s latest decision. All employees put …More
No Guarantee the Court Will Intervene
The full appeals court’s refusal to hear the case is a setback for the unions but there had been a …More
NSPS Legal Fight Could Be Lengthy
The legal fight over certain aspects of DoD’s national security personnel system, could continue for many more months, with federal …More
Awards Policy Finalized
OPM has finalized a policy in effect on an interim basis since 2002 making senior level and senior scientific and …More
Telework Improvements Backed
During voting just before its August recess, the House accepted an amendment to an energy bill (HR-3221) requiring agencies to …More
OGE Guidance on Helping Job Seekers
The Office of Government Ethics recently released guidance on ethical policies regarding assisting another person get a job. For a …More
Retiree Rehiring Authority Signed
President Bush has signed into law (P.L. 110-50) legislation allowing the rehiring of foreign service retirees to help with the …More
Vet Preference Policy Published
OPM in the July 19 Federal Register published an interim regulation carrying out a change in veterans preference policy under …More
Lessons on Pay Reforms Cited
CRS also noted that numerous federal pay reform proposals are circulating, including tying pay more closely to both market conditions …More
Pay Anomalies Exist, Too
CRS said that the current system also allows for anomalies in pay, noting that total compensation—including pay and bonuses—for senior …More
CRS Finds Pay Compression Worsening
Pay compression—the narrowing difference in pay between top federal officials and the people they supervise—has been increasing in recent years …More
Pay Order May Be Coming
Under federal pay law, the President has an annual opportunity, with an August 31 deadline, to set a federal pay …More
TSP Stock Funds Wilt in July
The three stock-oriented TSP funds suffered significant losses in July, with the small company (S) fund down 4.57 percent, the …More
Measures Target TSA Personnel Issues
The Senate in voting on the DHS 2008 appropriations bill (S-1644) adopted an amendment requiring a report to Congress on …More
Retiree Rehiring Measure Offered
Legislation (S-2003) offered in the Senate would expand the situations in which agencies may rehire federal retirees without an offset …More
Leave Improvement Bill Planned
The head of the House federal workforce subcommittee, Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., is considering offering legislation that would provide federal …More
More Contracting Restrictions Approved
The House has passed an appropriations bill covering the Agriculture Department and certain other agencies (HR-3161) that, like prior recent …More
Top Rate Scraping $400
The top daily rate will be in Vail, Colo., a total of $381 from December 1-January 31 and $316 February …More
New Per Diem Rates Announced
The General Services Administration has announced new per diem rates for federal travelers to be effective October 1. As in …More
Focus Will Shift to Senate
The Senate has not taken up either the DoD authorization or appropriations bills and likely will turn to one or …More
New National Security Clearance Salary Survey Results Reveal Widening of the Salary Gap
ClearanceJobs.com, the leading Internet-based job board for professionals with U.S. government security clearances, has released the results of its third …More
House Votes to Cut off NSPS Funds
The House has voted to cut off funding for DoD’s national security personnel system, the most severe in a series …More
Measure Would Restrict Labor Dept. Contracting
The House has passed an appropriations bill covering the Labor Department (HR-3043) that would bar further contracting-out studies or direct …More
Guidance Sent on Severe Weather Policies
OPM recently sent guidance to agencies regarding personnel policies in severe weather situations, describing policies on pay and benefits, telecommuting, …More
Benefit Changes Proposed
The Bush administration has sent to Congress as draft legislation several initiatives that it earlier announced that it supported. One …More
