The author calls for a critical examination of Federal labor relations instead of the draft executive order currently making the rounds in DC. He suggests it is time to look at government labor relations with an eye to its future.
Those who work for the federal government don’t think much of the process of hiring new employees. While Uncle Sam may be in the process of hiring hundreds of thousands of new federal employees, those currently working in federal agencies don’t hold out much hope for attracting, hiring and retaining good employees.
The C fund has now had six straight months of gains in the federal Thrift Savings Plan. No doubt, TSP investors are cheering the 2009 results so far but there is still plenty of reason to be cautious in investing your retirement funds.
President Obama has quietly sent out a letter to the House and Senate noting that for the federal workforce “an across-the board increase of 2.0 percent shall go into effect on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2010.”
Here is the text of a letter from President Obama to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate transmitting an alternative plan for pay increases for civilian Federal employees covered by the General Schedule (GS) and certain other pay systems in January 2010.
