AFGE has scheduled a number of meetings at resorts and a national conference with discounted Disney tickets in Orlando Florida in September. How many attendees will be on official time and government paid travel and per diem is anyone’s guess. The author suggests that for every day a union representative spends at this conference, up to three might not have to be furloughed. Does this affect your pay?
• Leave a CommentRecent events involving a wide range of agencies are adding fuel to the “perfect storm” for federal pay and benefits. For those looking for positions, salaries or names of federal employees in agencies currently being cited in news media, FedsDataCenter.com will provide much of the information.
• Leave a CommentIRS staffers in Cincinnati have been hard to find as reporters descended on the city.
• Leave a CommentWhite House officials were notified of a Treasury Department inspector general report on the IRS but elected not to tell President Obama about it.
• Leave a CommentA suspicious package prompted a shelter-in-lace order Monday at the downtown Houston federal building.
• Leave a CommentRepublicans are building pressure on the Obama administration with claims that senior White House officials knew that something was awry at the IRS last year and did nothing to stop it. The administration is countering that they had just as much information as key GOP lawmakers in Congress: that an IRS investigation was under way but details weren’t available until earlier this month.
• Leave a CommentThe former U.S. Attorney for Arizona could be disbarred, after an investigation found he lied to the Justice Department about his role in trying to discredit the federal whistle-blower who exposed the botched gun-running scheme known as Fast and Furious.
• Leave a CommentThe author says that IRS employees are represented by a “powerful, deeply partisan union whose boss has publicly disparaged the Tea Party and criticized the Republican party for having ties to it.”
• Leave a CommentThe president’s budget proposal for FY 2014 directly targets the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act and the Defense Base Act.
• Leave a CommentThe Justice Department obtained a portfolio of information about a Fox News correspondent’s conversations and visits as part of an investigation into a possible leak.
• Leave a CommentThe Senate’s immigration bill will raise national security risks and the Obama administration will do little more than “rubber-stamp” illegal immigrants into the program, endangering Americans, says the labor union representing the 12,000 employees who will have to approve the applications.
• Leave a CommentA government report says construction of a new Veterans Affairs hospital in New Orleans is $370 million over budget and 14 months behind schedule.
• Leave a CommentOPM has put out a call for agencies to submit nominations for the Presidential Rank Awards.
• Leave a CommentThe author writes that the federal government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers among charitable organizations its employees can support with their donations.
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