Compensation not top motivator: Pay for performance won’t fix problems By DAVID FRICK, OpEd to Federal Times - August 22, 2010
…Does pay, by itself, motivate the typical fed? I looked at this specific question in my doctoral project in which I surveyed 132 senior federal employees across all agencies. My conclusions: While pay does have […]

Analysis: The great federal pay debate By Howard Risher, Special to GovExec.com - August 19, 2010
Federal pay has been a contentious issue since the earliest days of the country. Now, in the middle of a deep recession with public concern about deficit spending, it is not at all surprising to learn that critics contend federal […]

Late last month, the GAO Union issued its report on how management implemented GAO Human Capital Reform Act of 2004.
The manner in which former Comptroller General David Walker chose to exercise the discretion provided him under this Act was the main catalyst for the GAO analyst staff to unionize.  Of particular concern to staff were Walker’s market-based pay and personnel workforce restructuring decisions in 2005 & 2006 […]

Bill with 1.4 percent federal pay raise clears Senate committee By Elizabeth Newell, Govexec.com - July 30, 2010
An appropriations bill including a 1.4 percent raise for civilian federal employees cleared the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday. The Fiscal 2011 Financial Services and General Government spending bill includes a 1.4 percent increase for federal employees, the […]

Pentagon tries to break from past on pay, personnel reform By Elizabeth Newell, Govexec.com - June 9, 2010
True collaboration among stakeholders will be crucial to ensuring future Defense Department personnel systems avoid the flaws that led to the downfall of the National Security Personnel System, agency and labor witnesses told a Senate panel on Wednesday.
John […]

Provide Your Comments to Congress on GAO’s Human Capital Flexibility by Friday, June 11, 2010 Union News, GAO ANALYSTS NEWS CENTER - May 27, 2010
Congress mandated in 2004 that GAO report on how GAO has exercised its personnel management flexibility under sections 2, 3, 4, 9, and 10 of the “Human Capital II” Act (GAO […]

Re-applying the Lipstick: The Next Generation of Merit Pay By Robbie Kunreuther, www.fedsmith.com - Tuesday, June 1, 2010
The article discussed below mentions GAO and how PFP helped motivate the formation of the GAO union.
Robbie Kunreuther, Director of Government Personnel Services (GPS), who has 35 years in the government’s trenches (13+ in the civil service and 22 more teaching seminars […]

Unions fight proposed pay freeze for feds: Federal employee groups mount offensive against House, Senate attempts to freeze federal pay in fiscal 2011 By FederalDaily Staff, Federal Computer Week - Jun 01, 2010
Unions and federal employee groups have had their hands full working to turn back attempts in the House and Senate to freeze federal […]

United States Government Accountability Office Fiscal Year 2011 Performance Plan GAO-10-598SP - May 21, 2010 (PDF, 32 pages)
Summary: This report presents the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Performance Plan for Fiscal Year 2011. In the spirit of the Government Performance and Results Act, this annual plan informs the Congress and the American people about what we […]

Davis_ECF_Appeal_Reply_Brief_as filed_051810
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
_______________________________
No 10-5044
_______________________________
Civil Action No. 06-1002
_______________________________
ARTHUR L. DAVIS,
JIMMIE GILBERT,
JAMES D. MOSES, for themselves
and all others similarly situated,
Appellants,
V.
GENE l. DODARO, ACTING
COMPTROLLER GENERAL,
of the United States Government
Accountability Office (GAO)
and
Michael Wolf, Chair,
The Personnel Appeals Board of the GAO,
Appellees.
Appellants, Arthur L. Davis, Jimmie Gilbert and James D. Moses hereby
Reply to […]

In his Memorandum Opinion dated December 18, 2009, Judge Emmett G. Sullivan, of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, refused to dismiss two of GAO Plaintiff James D. Moses’ age discrimination claims in Case No. 06-CV- 01712 (EGS). Specifically, the Court denied GAO’s motion to dismiss without prejudice on Plaintiff’s claims that: (1) His employer, the […]

House Floor Remarks about GAO (key excerpts) made during consideration of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2008 – June 22, 2007
Mr. DAVIS of Illionis.  For the past 18 months, the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia, which I chair, has been investigating certain personnel actions taken by the Comptroller General.
Our investigation culminated in a […]

Opening Statement of Chairman Danny K. Davis of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce at the Joint Hearing of May 22, 2007 on GAO Personnel Reform: Does It Meet Expectations?

My hope is that at the end of this hearing, GAO will take steps to regain its credibility by honoring its commitments, obeying the […]

The GAO Review 1966-1987 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The GAO Review was an American magazine published during the late 20th century. It was published by the Government Accountability Office of the United States Congress. It began in 1966 and ceased publication in 1987. It was succeeded by The GAO Journal
The purpose of the Review was […]

GAO Journal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The GAO Journal was an American magazine published during the late 20th century that succeeded The GAO Review. It was published by the Government Accountability Office of the United States Congress. It began in 1988 and ceased publication in 1992.
The purpose of the Journal was to cover government and […]

Statements from Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Acting CG Dodaro at the March 17, 2010 Hearing of the House Appropriations Subcommitee on the Legislative Branch on GAO’s Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Request
Excerpts from Transcript of March 17, 2010 Hearing 
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ:  … I am very concerned about the lack of progress on merit-based pay — pay raises. I understand that […]

Legislative Branch Subcommittee Hearing on FY11 GAO, GPO, and CBO Budgets - WEBCAST OF THE HEARING
GAO FISCAL YEAR 2011 BUDGET REQUEST Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate, Statement of Gene L. Dodaro Acting Comptroller General of the United States GAO-10-574T (PDF, 13 pages) - April 15, 2010
…As a knowledge-based […]

GAO Retirees Seek Retroactive Raises (PDF) By Emily Yehle, Roll Call Staff - April 12, 2010
Although analysts at the Government Accountability Office are on the verge of getting their 2010 merit raises, some of their retired colleagues are still struggling to receive their cost-of-living allowances from 2006 and 2007.
It has been two years since Congress […]

Three Questions Raised by the GAO Merit Pay Agreement Reached for Analyst Job Performance & Contributions in FY 2009
After four months of stonewalling and refusing to engage in serious PBC pay negotiations with its Union by those in charge of GAO, the GAO Union won a major victory in the PBC Pay Agreement they negotiated with GAO Management on […]

SPECIAL UNION NEWS: GAO Analyst Performance Based Compensation (PBC) Pay Tentative Agreement Reached, 4/1/2010 (see PDF)
The GAO Employees Organization is very pleased to announce that the GAO Union and GAO management reached tentative agreement on the 2010 Performance Based Compensation (PBC) pay analysts and specialists will receive. The Union and GAO management were in mediation […]

Declaration of Acting Comptroller General Dodaro (PDF) about his role in GAO’s pay system changes in federal age discrimination case 1:06-cv-01712-EGS (Document 101-1) - March 30, 2010
I, Gene L. Dodaro, declare as follows:
1. I am presently employed as the Acting Comptroller General of the United States, a position I have held since March 13, 2008. […]

Special Op-Ed from
Arthur L. Davis, Former Chair, GAO Advisory Council For Civil Rights (ACCR) and GAO Evaluator, 1973-2004
Roger A. Carroll, Former GAO 510 Financial Auditor/Evaluator 1964-1993
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009: Shouldn’t it be applied to GAO to rectify 25 years of systematic age discrimination against the agency’s older workers?
Dear former colleagues at GAO:
This post is […]

Transcript of March 17, 2010 Hearing on CBO, GAO, and OOC Budget Requests by House Appropriations Subcommittee on Legislative Branch
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ:  … I am very concerned about the lack of progress on merit-based pay — pay raises. I understand that there wasn’t any more progress in your conversations on Monday. So we’d like to hear an […]

OMB chief calls reports federal employees are overpaid ‘misleading’ By Tom Shoop, Govexec.com - March 9, 2010
Reports that federal employees are overpaid relative to their private sector counterparts are “misleading,” Office of Management and Budget Director Peter R. Orszag said Tuesday. Speaking at a Government Executive Leadership Briefing, Orszag addressed recent media reports showing that […]

Highlights of FY2011 GAO Budget request.pdf
FY2011 GAO budget request.pdf

FEATURES Charged for Change: OPM Director John Berry taps positive energy to push through telework, hiring and pay reforms By Alyssa Rosenberg Government Executive - March 1, 2010
Observers call Berry a change agent … Unlike many political appointees, Berry began his job already familiar with the challenges he expects to confront in his tenure and […]

GAO Union Testifies Before House Appropriations Subcommittee on Issues of Concern to GAO Employees 
On Wednesday February 24, 2010, the GAO Union testified before the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch of the House Committee on Appropriations chaired by Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz at the subcommittee’s hearing with Members and Public Witnesses. In the GAO Union testimony, Union President Ron La […]

Freeze on federal jobs won’t reduce spending By Linda Bilmes and Max Stier, OpEd in Boston Globe - February 10, 2010
Linda Bilmes, a faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School, is co-author of “The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service.’’ Max Stier is president and CEO of the nonprofit Partnership for Public […]

OPM director considers overhaul of civil service system By Joe Davidson, Washington Post Federal Diary - February 10, 2010
Joe Davidson writes that
John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management, is considering what would amount to a major overhaul of the GS, or General Schedule, classification and pay system that began in 1949. “We need to […]

This post was shared with GAOUnion.org by GAO retirees who are plaintiffs in the GAO Auditor/Analyst Age Discrimination Class Action lawsuit against the GAO (Federal Court Case No 87-3538)
Age Discrimination Has Undermined GAO’s Most Experienced and Knowledgeable Auditors/Analysts as well as the GAO Itself
1. The cancer of age discrimination has been growing for decades within one of the most important agencies in […]