FSA Use or Lose Deadline Coming Up
Employees who participated in the flexible spending account program in 2004 have until April 30 to submit qualified health care …More
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That same law also set changes, also effective May 1, designed to correct various pay administration anomalies resulting from the …More
Changes in Bonus Policy Coming
Several changes in the government’s policies on paying recruitment, relocation and retention payments are due to kick in May 1 …More
TSP Open Season Reminder
A new Thrift Savings Plan open season starts Friday (April 15) and runs through June 30, offering employees eligible for …More
Transit, FEHB Bills Offered
Among bills recently introduced in Congress are: HR-1283, which would put into law an executive order requiring that transit subsidies …More
VA Issues Guidance on Doctor Pay
The Veterans Affairs department has issued preliminary guidance on a law enacted late in 2004 revamping the way it pays …More
Report Highlights Employee Concerns
The CRS report, in focusing on the data—or lack of it—on the contracting-out program addressed one of the concerns that …More
CRS Sees ‘Dearth’ of Contracting-Out Information
The Congressional Research Service has said there is a “longstanding problem” in the government’s contracting-out program arising from the “dearth …More
OPM Reports on Veterans Employment
The Office of Personnel Management recently issued its latest annual report on the employment of veterans in the federal government, …More
Expert’s View: FERS 2, CSRS 1
FERS employees now outnumber CSRS employees by two to one and by 2014, nearly all federal employees will be covered …More
Interchange Agreement Reached on TSA Employees
The Office of Personnel Management and Department of Homeland Security recently concluded an “interchange agreement” authorizing the excepted service employees …More
Program Review Bill Advances
The House Government Reform Committee has passed legislation (HR-185) to require the Office of Management and Budget to review, “to …More
Nothing New on Missing Credit Card Tapes
The Defense Department, which has the most employees—both civilian and military—potentially affected by the loss of computer tapes containing personal …More
Budget Moves to Next Stage
The congressional appropriations committees have started preliminary work on the spending bills for the upcoming fiscal year that among other …More
Funding Switch Could Be Hang-Up
The Senate panel is holding hearings this week on the postal bill and if all goes according to plan will …More
Postal Reform Reintroduced in Senate
Legislation (S-662) to reform many U.S. Postal Service business practices—and some personnel practices—has been reintroduced by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, …More
Decision Pending on Blue-Collar Employee Pay at DoD
Defense Department officials say that they are continuing to study how to apply many of the provisions of the department’s …More
Leave Regs Issued
Interim rules issued in the March 21 Federal Register by the Office of Personnel Management carry out a change in …More
Breakdown by Agency Provided
Overall, the percentage of career SES members rated at the highest level (under three-, four- or five-level rating systems) was …More
Most SESers Rated Highly
About three-fourths of Senior Executive Service members received the highest rating available under their performance appraisal systems in fiscal 2003, …More
Four TSP Funds Struggle in March
All the Thrift Savings Plan funds were down in March except for the government securities (G) fund, which by definition …More
COLA Count Up
Through five months of the counting period toward the January 2006 retiree cost-of-living adjustment, retirees have banked 1.2 percent, following …More
Expert’s View: The Voluntary Contributions Program
If you are a CSRS or CSRS-Offset employee who doesn’t owe any deposits or redeposits to the retirement system, you …More
No Word Yet on Vision and Dental Plans
One change in health benefits coverage for employees, retirees and certain family members due in 2006 that is unrelated to …More
FEHB Call Letter Due Soon
The Office of Personnel Management is due to issue in the upcoming weeks its annual “call letter,” in which it …More
Concerns about Dual Track Also Raised
Also at the hearing, McPhie raised concerns that the expedited employee appeals system that DHS intends to use could force …More
‘Mitigation’ Provision Also Significant
McPhie also expressed concern about the limits the DHS rules impose on MSPB’s freedom to “mitigate,” or lessen, a penalty, …More
MSPB Reviews Changes in DHS Appeal Rules
The Merit Systems Protection Board has said that the new personnel appeals rules that the Department of Homeland Security is …More
Knowing Your (Schedule) ABCs
The Office of Personnel Management recently published, as part of a resource aimed primarily at agency hiring and management officials, …More
Wider Jurisdiction Also Proposed
The whistleblower measure would create a five-year pilot project of allowing appeals to go to circuit courts other than the …More
