Miscellaneous Bills Offered
Legislation recently offered in Congress includes: HR-663, by Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., which would increase the average government contribution toward …More
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The Merit Systems Protection Board has issues a report on managing federal recruiting, concluding that while the government can successfully …More
COLA Count Up in January
The inflation index used for determining federal retirement cost-of-living adjustments rose 0.2 percentage points in January, meaning that through four …More
Expert’s View: Understanding Deferred Annuities
If you have left government before retirement eligibility or might do so, you may be eligible to receive a deferred …More
TSP Disagrees with Some Recommendations
In its response to GAO, the TSP said that it wants to give participants more time to gain experience with …More
TSP Customer Service Examined
The Thrift Savings Plan uses many of the same customer services that private money managers employ, including automated telephone services, …More
Departments Moving Ahead
In the absence of any action by either the courts or Congress to block their new personnel programs, both DoD …More
Scrutiny of DoD, DHS Rules Begins
New personnel rules for the Defense and Homeland Security departments will come under scrutiny by both the legislative and judicial …More
Expert’s View: The Effect of a Divorce on Your Retirement Benefits
If you are heading for a divorce, you need to know about the Spouse Equity Act, writes benefits expert Reg …More
DoD Fact Sheet on NSPS
The Defense Department has issued a fact sheet on its new national security personnel system addressing major elements of the …More
Performance Reward System a Work in Progress
Other guidance also will be needed on details of the pay for performance system, such as exactly how differing ratings …More
Lots More Guidance to Come from DoD
DoD, like DHS before it, has said it expects to issue a considerable amount of additional guidance on its new …More
2006 DoD, DHS Raises on Schedule
In the last two budgets, the appropriations panel has specified that all employees of both the Defense and Homeland Security …More
Panel is Key Player in Raise Setting
The subcommittee annually plays a key role in the debate over the annual federal pay raise, since it is the …More
House Sets Shakeup of Spending Panels
The House Appropriations Committee intends to rearrange its structure in a way that will affect the subcommittee that oversees spending …More
Options Are Familiar Ones
Many of the recommendations in the CBO report have been raised in similar reports in the past—the report comes out …More
Potential Benefit Cuts Outlined
The Congressional Budget Office has once again released a series of budget-cutting options that in the federal employment realm mainly …More
DoD Continues Civilian Conversion Program
The Defense Department says it converted some 7,600 military positions to civilian performance in fiscal 2004 and plans to convert …More
Job Fairs, by John Grobe
Attending a job fair is one of the many ways that you can locate employment opportunities in both the public …More
FECA Proposals Repeated
President Bush’s proposed budget for fiscal 2006 repeats recommendations made several times previously to reform the Federal Employees Compensation Act, …More
OPM Role also Defined
Under the rules, which finalize earlier policy, an agency must present a plan to OPM, which may modify it, after …More
Buyout Policy Finalized
The Office of Personnel Management on January 27 issued rules in the Federal Register explaining how an agency requests authority …More
Expert’s View: How to Handle Problems with OPM
By and large the Office of Personnel Management case processing system works, writes benefits expert Reg Jones. “However, depending on …More
OPM Believes ‘Tipping Point’ Reached
Acting Office of Personnel Management director Dan Blair said at a briefing that it will be “hard to overestimate the …More
A Wait, then a Phase-In
The DoD rules will not be effective for at least three months, following a comment period, a period of required …More
Union Rights Also Restricted
The proposed rules, like similar final rules recently unveiled by the Department of Homeland Security, expands non-negotiable management rights to …More
Appeals Rights Changing
The new DoD personnel system also will change appeal rights for employees as they are phased into the new system. …More
DoD Announces Pay, Other Reforms
The Defense Department has published proposed rules (in the February 14 Federal Register) to carry out its “national security personnel …More
Subcommittee Chairman Named
Rep. Jon C. Porter, R-Nev., has been named head of the civil service subcommittee of the House Government Reform Committee, …More
Employees Win at High Rate
Meanwhile, the percentage of competitions won by the in-house side rise slightly from 89 to 91 percent between 2003 and …More
