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Preparing for Budget Cuts in Agencies
The Office of Management and Budget has asked all cabinet agencies, except defense and veterans affairs, to prepare two budget proposals for fiscal 2011. One would freeze spending at current levels. The other would cut spending by 5%.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Story
The FLRA's "Covered-By" Cover-Up (Part Two)
The author says that a test applied by the Federal Labor Relations Authority clashes with fundamental principles of collective bargaining.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Full Story
Unaffordable Health Insurance
Congress legislates its own health benefits under the political cover of doing it "for" the Civil Service. While the range of coverage options offered by the FEHB program is impressive, the only role Congress has is to set the annual contribution percentages between the employee and the government. Most lower-paid federal employees are financially constrained from choosing the higher-cost plans.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Hanged Fed and Possible Insurance Scam
Investigators trying to solve the mystery of a census taker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest are examining whether he manipulated the scene in order to conceal a suicide and make a life insurance claim possible for his son.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Concerned About Your Health Care Costs?
On average, federal employees spend about seven percent of their income on health care, but that amount varies considerably. Federal employees should consider the total cost of their health care.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Full Story
Seeking Out Political Appointees Converting to Career Positions
It is a common practice for officials of an administration to "burrow in" and become federal employees during a change of administrations. OPM is requiring agencies to get approval for "current political Schedule A or Schedule C Executive Branch employee or a former political Schedule A or Schedule C Executive Branch employee who held the position within the last five years" before appointing them to a competitive or excepted service position.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Hasan to Be Charged With Premeditated Murder
Army officials intend to charge Maj. Nidal M. Hasan with premeditated murder in last week's killing of 12 soldiers and a civilian at Fort Hood.
Posted: November 12, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Man Killed by Vice-President's Secret Service Vehicles
Two U.S. Secret Service armored vehicles used to protect Vice President Biden struck and killed a pedestrian in Temple Hills, Maryland early Wednesday morning.
Posted: November 12, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Letter Carrier Delivers Safe Performance
Think about pulling in and out of traffic, hundreds of times a day, while delivering mail without an at-fault accident — not even a fender-bender involving a mailbox, trashcan or decorative rock. Here is a Postal Service employee who has accomplished that feat.
Posted: November 12, 2009 | Full Story
Devastation Blended With Relief
This federal employee learned her husband was gay after a marriage of 31 years. The result: Devastation blended with relief.
Posted: November 12, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Story
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