Agency-by-Agency Breakdown of SES Ratings
According to the OPM data, the Defense and Education departments gave top rankings to virtually all of their career senior …More
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Federal agencies are rating fewer of their senior executives as top performers, according to Office of Personnel Management data, showing …More
Expert’s View: Getting Credit for Military Service
You can get credit for your military service toward your federal retirement, writes benefits expert Reg Jones. “However – yes, …More
Benefit Could Be Extended to Judiciary Employees
CBO made its observations in concluding that there would be no significant cost to legislation (S-1736) that has passed the …More
CBO Assesses Emergency Leave Transfer Program
The authority for executive branch employees to donate annual leave to be transferred to employees of their own agency or …More
High Court to Decide Grievance Issue
The U.S. Supreme Court has will decide during its current term an appeal of a case, Whitman v. Department of …More
Contracting-Out Also Targeted
The Senate Transportation-Treasury measure also includes language to largely override government-wide the changes the Bush administration made in 2003 to …More
Spending Measure Contains Other Provisions
In addition to the raise language, the Senate bill also would continue many long-standing government-wide provisions affecting federal employees. These …More
White House Raises Objections
The Bush administration has raised numerous objections to the measure, arguing that a 3.1 percent raise would exceed private sector …More
Senate Approves 3.1 Percent Raise
The Senate has joined the House in passing the Transportation-Treasury appropriations bill for fiscal 2006 (HR-3058) that specifies a 3.1 …More
TSP Loosens Withdrawal Rules for Some
The Thrift Savings Plan has loosened its rules regarding financial hardship in-service withdrawals for those affected by Hurricane Katrina. In …More
MSPB Makes Recommendations
MSPB’s recommendations include: providing agencies with the flexibility to set the length of the probationary period based upon the unique …More
Few Firings or Resignations
The MSPB survey asked supervisors if they would select their probationer again if given the chance to do it over. …More
MSPB: Probationary Period Not Being Used Effectively
The Merit Systems Protection Board has released a study on the issue of probationary periods, that period after hiring in …More
Expert’s View: Annual Leave and Retirement
If you are targeted in a reduction-in-force (RIF), there is a way of staying on your agency’s payroll until you …More
Just for the Record
The salary council estimates the overall average pay gap between federal and private sector pay under a 1990 federal pay …More
Raises Would Range up to 5.62 Percent
Assuming that a 3.1 percent raise is ultimately enacted, 2.1 percent of that most likely would be paid across the …More
Senate Takes Up Raise Measure
The Senate has taken up the Transportation-Treasury appropriations bill (HR-3058) that as usual is serving as the vehicle for the …More
Social Security Numbers Also Changing
The 4.1 percent COLA also will be applied to Social Security benefits, mainly of interest to those retired under the …More
COLA, Raises Two Different Things
The retiree COLA, which is set through an automatic inflation-linked process, has no direct effect on pay raises for active …More
2006 COLA Set at 4.1 Percent
Those retired under the CSRS retirement system, who make up the large majority of federal retirees, will get a 4.1 …More
Federal Legal Corner: EEOC Reiterates Reasonable Suspicion Rule
The EEOC recently issued a decision (Bradley v. Dept. of Homeland Security, EEOC No. 01A53129 (2005)), which reiterates a well …More
Loan Policy Improvement Price Tag Set
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that passing pending legislation to make student loan reimbursement payments for federal employees tax-free …More
DoD Issues Travel Comp Time Policy
The Defense Department has issued guidance carrying out authority enacted last year for agencies to grant compensatory time off for …More
Commissary Access Rules Loosened
The Defense Department has sent out interim guidance to permit broader access to military exchanges, commissaries, morale/welfare/recreation and lodging facilities …More
Large Number of Employees Affected by Katrina
The Congressional Research Service has estimated that in the three states most affected by Hurricane Katrina, there are 55,253 federal …More
Expert’s View: Those Actuarial Reductions
Actuarial reductions are one of the mysteries of the retirement system, writes benefits expert Reg Jones. “They are only used …More
OPM’s Explanation of Reform Proposal
At the hearing, Springer outlined both the proposals and the administration’s justification for them. For a closer look, go to …More
Measure Targets DHS Contracting, Personnel System
Meanwhile, Congress has cleared the fiscal 2006 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (HR-2360), which bars the agency …More
Judge Again Rules Against DHS Rules
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has issued another ruling against parts of the revised personnel rules planned at the …More
