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Swat Teams and the Federal Hiring Process
The Office of Personnel Management is creating "SWAT teams" and "wolf packs" to push federal agencies to improve the government's hiring process and create better working conditions in federal agencies.
Posted: July 1, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Story
How Feds are Trained, Paid and Appraised
The White House plans to overhaul the way federal employees are paid, appraised and trained beginning in 2011.
Posted: July 1, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Uncle Sam's Used Used Cars: Hurry on Down--But Act Fast Before The Deal is Gone
Uncle Sam wants you to turn in your used car and will help you buy it by giving you money. We could have done it simply, as was done in Germany, but in America we have a complex law to be followed by a new infusion of regulations interpreting the law.
Posted: July 1, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Anti-Terrorism Training Exam Modified by DoD
The Pentagon has removed a controversial question from its anti-terrorism training exam that labeled “protests" a form of “low-level terrorism." The ACLU had written a letter to the Pentagon asking it to remove the question from the exam, which is a part of defense employees' routine training.
Posted: July 1, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Forget The Sacrifice: Bumping Up the 2010 Pay Raise
Earlier this year, President Obama asked that federal employees do their part during an economic downturn with a average 2010 pay raise of 2%. That isn't a bad raise with unemployment around 10% but there may not be any sacrifice after all with the possibility of a average pay raise of 3.4% in 2010.
Posted: June 30, 2009 | Full Story
- Federal Employees Making More Than Members of Congress? How Can That Be?
- Federal Workers Not Underpaid
- Pay Parity and Your 2010 Pay Raise
- President Asks Federal Employees to Sacrifice in 2010: Proposes 2% Pay Raise
Helping Horses--And Their Owners
A horse owner in Florida needed medicine quickly for her injured horse. A local Postmaster worked with the owner to ensure the horses got the medicine in time.
Posted: June 30, 2009 | Full Story
Obama Promises to Deliver on Gay Rights Issues Before Leaving Office
President Obama has vowed to overturn the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy and to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which allows states to ignore same-sex marriages performed in other states and bars the federal government from granting marriage benefits to people in same-sex unions. "I think you guys will have pretty good feelings about the Obama administration" he said in a speech.
Posted: June 30, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Death of the Whistleblower Protection Act
"Until Congress acts, the Whistleblower Protection Act is dead." The comment comes after a decision from the MSPB involving a former air marshal who was fired for disclosing sensitive security information.
Posted: June 30, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Construction of Kansas City Federal Building Thrown into Doubt
Missouri's U.S. senators are worried that a Senate committee's request for more financial analysis might kill a proposed federal office building that could bring 1,200 employees into downtown Kansas City.
Posted: June 30, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Supreme Court Overturns Sotomayor Decision
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., who said they were denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and others.
Posted: June 29, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Story
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