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Labor iPhone app can help employees keep the boss in check

Labor Department's smart phone application helps workers keep track of hours.

  • By GCN Staff

What shutdown? Get to work.

An 11th-hour deal averts a government shutdown and furloughs for about 800,000 federal workers that would have come with it. But down the road, a bigger budget battle looms.

  • By Kevin McCaney

Who gets hit when the government shuts down?

More than 800,000 federal employees will be affected when funding for the government expires April 8.

  • By Alyah Khan

Federal pay freeze is a done deal

A new law funds the government through March and freezes civilian federal employees' pay for the next two fiscal years.

  • By Alyah Khan

Fed employees cry foul on coming pay freeze

The Senate has approved a continuing resolution to fund the government through March 4 that includes a two-year pay freeze for all civilian federal employees.

  • By Alyah Khan

Federal pay raise challenged, but union head defends it

Colleen Kelley, president of a federal employee union, argues that federal salaries are not excessive.

  • By Michael Hardy

Group wants $47B slashed from federal salaries

The saga of the “overpaid fed” took a new turn with a conservative think tank’s report suggesting that federal pay could be cut by $47 billion next year.

  • By FederalDaily Staff

No pulse, no pay: How the 'Do Not Pay' list will work

Vice President Joe Biden announced today that a governmentwide Do Not Pay List is being created to track debarred contractors, deceased individuals and others ineligible for federal payments.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Report: Systems engineer is best IT job

San Francisco-based research and analysis group, Focus, has named systems engineer as the "best job in America."

  • By Herb Torrens

NSPS: An improvement or just another good ol' boy network?

When Defense Business Board recommended an overhaul of the Defense Department’s controversial National Security Personnel System, federal employee unions were quick to call the measure insufficient. GCN readers, particularly those who work within the system, were not far behind with their own opinions.

  • By Kevin McCaney

Unions critical of decision to overhaul DOD personnel system

Federal employee unions have sharply criticized the recommendation of the Defense Business Board to overhaul, and not abandon, Defense Department’s controversial National Security Personnel System.

DOD, OPM conclude Defense personnel system needs overhaul

The National Security Personnel System should be rebuilt because of systemic problems, a task force finds.

  • By Doug Beizer

IT salaries on the rise

A survey by TechRepublic found that salaries for IT professionals increased in the past year, and bonuses were significant for those who earned them.

  • By Joab Jackson
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