Vet Preference Guidance Issued for Medal Recipients
The Office of Personnel Management has issued guidance for benefits associated with the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary and Service …More
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration plans to issue proposed rules this week to expand the types of …More
Reminder on Non-prescription Drug Coverage
Although the Office of Personnel Management announced late in 2003 that non-prescription drugs are eligible for reimbursement from FSA health …More
Personnel Reforms Clear Senate
The Senate has approved a bill (S-129) containing revisions to federal personnel policies including: allowing compensatory time off for time …More
Agencies to Bear the Cost
Opponents of the pay parity measure-including the White House, which lobbied against it–argued that the additional cost of boosting the …More
Pay Parity Backers Win Key Vote
By a 299-126 margin, the House has voted in favor of setting federal raises for January 2005 at the same …More
Catch-Ups Also Allowed
The TSP last year started allowing actively employed investors age 50 and older to start making “catch-up” contributions, with a …More
Classification, Pay, Appeals Rights at Issue
Among the main aspects of the NSPS system yet to be defined in even a proposed form are changes to …More
Ideas on DoD Reforms Expected This Month
Teams working on the overhaul of the Defense Department personnel system expect to report to senior Pentagon leadership this month, …More
Political Activity Restrictions on Federal Employees
With the campaigning season in swing, it’s important for federal and postal employees to understand which activities are permissible and …More
OPM: Watch for Conversions of Appointees
In a warning it issues each presidential election year, the Office of Personnel Management has told agencies that they should …More
DoD Cites Excess Base Capacity
The Defense Department has repeated, although in greater detail, its prior argument that despite four rounds of base closings since …More
Skeptical Views Expressed
At the hearing, members of Congress of both parties expressed skepticism about adding HSAs, fearing that such plans damage the …More
HSAs Remain Under Consideration
The Office of Personnel Management is continuing to consider adding “health savings accounts” to the Federal Employees Health Benefits program, …More
House to Vote on Pay Parity Measure
The House-passed budget outline for the upcoming fiscal year is silent on the federal pay raise for 2005, but leaders …More
Other Restrictions Apply
The hiring of annuitants without an offset under the DoD authority may be either for temporary or permanent positions but …More
DoD Guidance Issued on Rehiring of Annuitants
The Defense Department has issued guidance on the authority it gained under its current year’s budget to hire federal retirees …More
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Authority Exceeded, Unions Argue.
While the unions have raised many similar objections to the DHS plans in the past, they had taken a somewhat …More
Unions Criticize DHS Rules
Federal unions representing Department of Homeland Security employees have objected formally to practically every element of the department’s proposed new …More
COLA Count Up in February
The consumer price index measure used to set federal retirement cost-of-living adjustments rose 0.6 percent in February, meaning that through …More
Pay Cap, FEHB Bills Advance
The House civil service subcommittee has approved HR-3751, a bill to require the Office of Personnel Management to produce a …More
Maneuver Seeks to Free GPO Bill
Sponsors of a measure (HR-594) to eliminate the government pension offset reduction are working on a legislative maneuver to move …More
Testimony of TSP Officials
Top officials of the Thrift Savings Plan recently testified before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee in a rare hearing involving …More
Lifestyle versus Lifecycle Funds
One type of fund under consideration would be a lifestyle fund, in which the investor would decide a preferred level …More
New TSP Fund Idea Moves Ahead
The Thrift Savings Plan governing board is continuing to push ahead with the idea of adding a new fund or …More
Retroactive Pay Coming, DoD Says
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service, which acts as the payroll agent for nearly half the executive branch workforce, has …More
DoD Seeks More Personnel Authorities
The Defense Department has sent Congress its annual wish list of new civilian personnel authorities, a list that is considerably …More
‘Reconciliation’ May Be Ordered
Under the House budget measure as drafted, a process known as “reconciliation” would again be used, in which reconciliation, individual …More
Pay Parity Effort Suffers Setback
This year’s version of the annual effort to bring the upcoming year’s federal raise up to the level slated for …More
