Should legislation be approved to allow unmarried federal employees to apply for benefits for a domestic partner? Here are the results of a recent survey of FedSmith readers on this issue.
What do you need to do in order to improve your career prospects? Here are resolutions you can use to become more successful in 2008.
As 2007 comes to a close, what were the topics of most interest to our readers? You might expect that pay issues would be popular but how about sick leave and mistakes that get federal employees in trouble? Here is a listing of our top 20 articles in order of their popularity. The most popular articles are listed first.
A supervisor who changed records to show that employees were coming in before their scheduled time of work got fired. An appeals court says that is a reasonable penalty.
When a union representative signed a settlement agreement on behalf of an employee it was representing back in 2000, the agreement was not to litigate the issue further. The Postal Service probably thought the case was over. But the union then went to arbitration anyway, the employee went to the MSPB and then to federal court arguing that because he had not personally signed the agreement, it was invalid. Seven years later, the issue may now be resolved.
A Border Patrol agent who did not come to the aid of another agent asking for help while in a “hostile encounter” was fired by the agency. The fired agent offered the “I was fired because I was a whistleblower” defense that seemingly gets raised routinely in federal appeals. That didn’t fly nor did his argument that his colleague wasn’t really in trouble so a court upholds the removal action.
Retirement on your mind? Consider long term care insurance. What you are really buying is protection for your assets.
Many readers make public presentations to the general public, other federal employees or to a mixture of groups at conferences and in meetings. Here are suggestions on how to be more successful in your presentation.
Most Federal employees who get disciplined, deserve it (read the decisions). Most of the supervisory mistakes result from poor training or higher level leadership issues. This article takes a look at supervisors and the difficulties they often face coping with an employee in trouble.
With the approval of the omnibus spending bill by the House, the 2008 federal pay raise saga may be limping to an end this week despite predictions of an administrative disaster befalling the government with another shutdown or the possibility of a continuing resolution for the rest of the year.
