A New Personnel Policy: Big Plans on Back Burner.

Reports on the delay in the implementation of the amended personnel policy of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after a decision made by Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of federal district court in Washington on the illegality of the system. Plan to complete the overhaul of the personnel system of the agency before the end of the term of President George W. Bush; Responses of labor unions to the ruling; Revisions to be made in the personnel regulations of the Department of Defense; Criticisms against the pay-for-performance plan of the administration.