Panel Urges Melding of Intelligence Operations
In the television cliffhanger "24," Jack Bauer and the other government agents use fancy cell phones, powerful computers and exotic gear as they scramble to unravel a terrorist plot. The Fox TV show's...
View ArticleNew Personnel Systems Offer Ways to Play Up Performance
Pay raises tied to performance ratings. Performance ratings linked to performance appraisals.
View Article'Ordinary Woman' Awarded Defense of Freedom Medal
An Army & Air Force Exchange Service employee, Sarah Latona , has been awarded the Defense of Freedom Medal, the civilian equivalent of the military's Purple Heart. It's the first such award in the...
View ArticleMd. Company Wins 5-Year Maintenance Contract at Naval Medical Center
A Columbia contractor has taken over maintenance and other work that was performed by 273 federal employees at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.
View ArticleHundreds Hired to Provide Medicare Drug Benefit
The Medicare program will offer a prescription drug benefit to the nation's seniors at the start of next year, an ambitious effort that will require focused management and skilled employees in order to...
View ArticleNARFE Changes Its Name to Broaden Appeal
In a bid to pump up membership and reach out to federal employees, the organization that has represented the interests of government retirees since 1921 has decided to retire its name.
View ArticleFederal Executives Net High Ratings
Federal executives sailed through another year with mostly high job ratings, data released by the Office of Personnel Management show.
View ArticleTSP Hesitates to Add Real Estate to Its Turf
Is it time to add more investment options to the Thrift Savings Plan?
View ArticleGAO Finds Lower Pay for Women, Minorities at Energy Department Labs
Women were paid between 2 percent and 4 percent less than men at five of six Energy Department laboratories, and minorities were paid about 2 percent less than whites at one lab, according to a review...
View ArticleLawmakers to Propose Real Estate Investment Option for TSP
Legislation that would add a real estate investment trust (REIT) option to the Thrift Savings Plan will be introduced today, three House members announced yesterday.
View ArticleHouse Seeks to Put Stamp on Postal Service
The House Government Reform Committee has called a meeting today for a vote on legislation that would provide the Postal Service with more flexibility in its services and business operations and free...
View ArticleGreater Whistle-Blower Protections Approved
These are tough times for federal employees who blow the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse. Their cases take months to investigate; they often face reprisals from bosses, and once in court, they find...
View ArticleIn Tales of the IRS, Rossotti Comes to the Rescue
When visitors met with Charles O. Rossotti in his office at the Internal Revenue Service, his forebears looked down from the walls. In his book on his five years at the IRS, Rossotti includes a family...
View Article10 Years Later, Hope Has A Home in Oklahoma City
This morning, Richard Williams plans to be in church, speaking about the importance of hope and faith. He is a survivor of the April 19, 1995, truck bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal...
View ArticleNegotiations Begin in Defense Pay, Rule Changes
Pentagon officials and labor leaders get down to brass tacks this week. The two groups will meet over a proposed regulation that would change the way about 746,000 civil service employees are paid,...
View ArticleTSP Will Resist Adding Real Estate Fund
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board will oppose adding a real estate investment trust fund to the Thrift Savings Plan "at this time," the board's chairman said yesterday.
View ArticleDental and Vision Coverage Will Improve Next July
Enhanced dental and vision benefits will be available to federal employees and retirees in July 2006, the Office of Personnel Management said yesterday in a letter to insurance companies.
View ArticleDOJ Lawyers Also Want Comp Time for Travel
Civil service employees and most Foreign Service officers may claim time off for travel during their off-duty hours. But not lawyers at the Justice Department.
View ArticleBill Would Restore Pension Credits
A bill that would allow former government workers to recoup their pension credits when returning to federal employment has been introduced in the House by Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.).
View ArticleDefense Pay-Raise Flap Shaking NSPS Confidence
A single paragraph in an $81 billion spending bill provides a glimpse of why government officials must move carefully when taking on the responsibility to more rigorously link pay raises to job...
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