HHS was ordered to hire a veteran and to compute back pay where the agency conceded that it would have selected a veteran had it not made an error in removing his name from the list of candidates for a competitive service position.
Heavy snow in the Washington, DC metropolitan area has resulted in the federal government closing on Monday, December 21st. Here is what this means for readers residing in the Washington metropolitan area.
A surviving widow of a retired federal employee tried without success to convince OPM, the MSPB and the appeals court that her deceased husband had provided her a survivor’s annuity.
The Medicare Premium Fairness Act was passed by the House but is stalled in the Senate. The Act was designed to prevent CSRS employees enrolled in Medicare Part B from paying a higher premium in 2010 even though they are not enrolled in Social Security.
We are in that time of year when Congress, the White House and others announce numbers for the next year. The number in which current employees are most interested was just announced – the “comparability increase” (aka your raise) will be about 2%. Here is how this raise compares with other numbers that impact you and your family.
How will your pay and leave be impacted with the extra time off given to many federal employees on the day before Christmas? Here are answers from the Office of Personnel Management that will resolve the questions from many readers.
The courts have been chipping away at employees’ privacy rights, particularly with regard to email on the clock. Some of these issues are being given a second look.
Federal Agencies have lots to do in a short time to meet the requirements of the new Executive Order creating labor-management forums. The author’s wife, a retired Federal Human Resources Director, is betting him that Agencies will never meet the deadlines set by the Order for submitting plans. The author looks at requirements Agencies face.
Today is the busiest day of the year for the Postal Service.
Executive Order notifying agencies of a half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies on Thursday, December 24, 2009
