FSA Open Season Set for May 19
The Office of Personnel Management has announced that it will hold an open season May 19-June 20 for the flexible …More
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The three Thrift Savings Plan funds based on stock market returns in April had their best month since last October, …More
COLA Count Up to 2.1
Halfway through the counting period toward the January 2004 retiree cost-of-living adjustment, the inflation index used to set the adjustment …More
Locality Pay Boundaries Issue Addressed
While the government later this year is expected to change the borders of many standard metropolitan statistical areas-the geographic zones …More
More than 300,000 Military Positions Could Be Converted
Meanwhile, officials have said that a parallel initiative to reassign uniformed military personnel to duties more military in nature could …More
Process Could Be a Long One
The DoD legislative package for civilian personnel policy is part of a larger overhaul of the department that the Pentagon …More
Retention, Advancement Systems Also to Be Revised
Under the DoD proposal the performance evaluations also would be given greater weight in deciding who stays or goes during …More
Performance Pay Could Replace Annual Raises
DoD officials also have said that under their proposed pay-for-performance system, high-performing employees would get greater rewards than under the …More
Supervisory Differential Also Planned
In addition to the pay bands in the career groups, the DoD proposal includes authority for a pay differential for …More
DoD Favors Pay Banding for All Its GS Employees
Defense Department official in announcing details of the civilian personnel reform plan recently sent to Congress, have indicated that they …More
Closer Look at Call Letter
The annual “call letter” kicks off the process of designing plans for the upcoming year and the negotiations between OPM …More
Some New Coverages Outlined
The call letter also is the annual opportunity for OPM to recommend-or mandate-that carriers provide certain types of coverage. As …More
Prescription Drug Costs Remain a Concern
In its to carriers, OPM said that both carriers and employees need to “work together to better understand the responsibility …More
FEHB Customer Choice Emphasized
The Office of Personnel Management, warning that “health care consultants are again predicting significant health care cost increases next year,” …More
Telework Still Not Widely Used
Although Congress and the Office of Personnel Management have been pushing agencies to make greater use of telecommuting for their …More
Future Raises Projected
The Bush administration has projected that after a January 2004 increase of 2 percent, federal employees will get 3.4 percent …More
Distribution, Health Premium Rules Also Targeted
The Portman-Cardin bill also would revise the “minimum required distribution” rules applying in the TSP and in similar retirement programs …More
Rollover Proposal Introduced
A proposal has been offered in Congress to allow a $500 rollover of unspent money in FSA accounts at the …More
Choose With Care
Employees will want to consider their FSA elections with care. The chosen salary deductions in the program will be irrevocable …More
FSA Open Season Upcoming
With the initial open season for flexible spending accounts across the executive branch is now only about a month away. …More
TSP Schedule Could Be Announced
The Thrift Savings Plan’s governing board is set to meet next week and could then endorse a schedule for making …More
Some Military Positions Could Go Civilian
The DoD proposal also raises the possibility of converting certain uniformed military positions to federal employee positions, in effect creating …More
Detailed Look at Proposal
For a detailed look at DoD’s proposals for its civilian employees, go to https://www.fedweek.com/HotFreeNews/default.asp in the hot free info section …More
Union Rights Could be Affected
The DoD proposal would include a “collaborative process, based on the model established in the Homeland Security Act, for ensuring …More
Key Features of Proposal
The key features of the DoD plan to create a for itself include: streamlined recruitment and candidate ranking; universal pay …More
DoD Proposes Sweeping Personnel Reforms
The Defense Department has sent to Congress a wide-ranging request for reforms in the way it recruits, develops, assesses, compensates, …More
Annuity Boost for Injured Workers Sought
Employees under the FERS retirement system who have breaks in service due to injuries or work-related illnesses would have their …More
Travel Reimbursement Guidance Issued
The General Services Administration recently issued on situations in which payment of a federal employee’s expenses from a non-federal source …More
Annual Premium Pay Cap Can Apply
OPM also reminded agencies that the head of an agency may apply an annual cap to certain types of premium …More
Reminder Issued on Premium Pay
The Office of Personnel Management has sent agencies a reminder about certain special rules regarding premium pay for civilian employees …More
