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13 Years and Still Filing Appeals to Recover a Lost Federal Job
How many appeals from a federal employee are too many? When a decision starts out with the sentence such as "This is yet another chapter in the protracted saga of the [petitioner's] unsuccessful attempt to require the United States Postal Service...to rehire him..." the limit may have been exceeded.
Posted: May 23, 2007 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Union's No Confidence Vote Was "Sense of Duty and Devotion to this Country"
T.J. Bonner, President of the National Border Patrol Council, responds to a recent article regarding the vote of "no confidence" in the Chief of the US Border Patrol. The author states that "...the motivation for the vote of no confidence was not malice toward Chief Aguilar...but rather a sense of duty and devotion to this country...."
Posted: May 19, 2007 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Questions Lou Should Have Asked
The chief of the Border Patrol has been under attack in the press. A reader says that in an interview with CNN, several obvious questions were not asked. The author lists the "obvious questions" and the hypothetical answers.
Posted: May 17, 2007 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Up or Out?
Most people want a promotion--including military officers. This Naval officer went to court to get a promotion but the Navy gets the case thrown out on summary judgment.
Posted: May 17, 2007 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Earth to Border Patrol Council
A recent "no confidence" vote by a federal employee union in the performance of Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar reflects a lack of knowledge of how the American system of government operates and it is inappropriate for a federal employee to be publicly opposing government policies he is sworn to uphold.
Posted: May 11, 2007 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
"FedRent" Program Nabs SSA Employee
Most readers are probably not aware of the "FedRent" initiative but the program has snared an employee of SSA who has now been indicted for mail fraud by allegedly devising a plan to illegally receive funds from HUD.
Posted: May 11, 2007 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Paying High Taxes? The Tax Dream Team Had a Solution
Need extra money? This former official with the IRS apparently needed some and found a way to make a few hundred thousand extra bucks. But, despite a 30-year career, he may be spending some of his retirement in federal prison.
Posted: April 30, 2007 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Risk v. Reward: Prison and a Fine for $300
A former Postal Service employee has been convicted of mail theft after taking two guitars from a Postal Service facility to pay off a $300 debt. He could be sentenced up to 5 years in prison with a large fine.
Posted: April 13, 2007 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Whoops! Some Controllers Left Out of Pay Arrangement
Ten air traffic controllers got left out when the agency and union negotiated an agreement to transfer controllers from the GS schedule to the new controller pay system. A federal court says that both the agency and union should have anticipated the problem but federal law does not provide a remedy. The controllers who got left of the arrangement out are out of luck.
Posted: April 13, 2007 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
One More Avenue of Appeal? Using the Privacy Act to Challenge A Suspension
A federal court found that a GS-15 federal employee was seeking judicial review of a personnel decision to suspend him by using the Privacy Act as an end-run around Civil Service Reform Act procedures. The case took three years.
Posted: April 4, 2007 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
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