H.R. 122 is a bill that has been introduced in the new Congress to limit the circumstances under which official time may be used by a federal employee. It would repeal provisions of the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act that allow federal employees to use official work hours to perform union functions or participate in union activities.
The deficit commission has made a number of recommendations that may impact your pay and benefits as a federal employee. Here is what we know, what we do not know, and why it is your best interests to pay close attention to these changes.
An agency Inspector General, appointed by President George W. Bush and fired by President Obama, was recently handed a defeat in his attempt to overturn his firing.
The Partnership for Public Service is seeking nominations for the nation’s most outstanding federal employees.
The author offers up a recap of the more bizarre and exotic stories in Federal sector labor and employee relations. Each year we think it couldn’t get wackier and each year it does. Again, we don’t make up these stories.
2010 was a bumpy ride for investors in the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The gains for the year were solid but most of the advances occurred during the last half of the year–rewarding those investors who had the fortitude to withstand the ups and downs along the way.
The overtime and associated costs paid by multiple Federal agencies in arbitration decisions or in settlements reached by the parties on Fair Labor Standards Act cases is staggering. In the second of these articles, the author provides an analysis from a Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) case and why agencies are losing these cases.
The Author discusses the Federal pay freeze statute, the Obama Executive Order and implementing memo as well as OPM’s guidance. He asks whether the apparent exclusion from a pay freeze for those who are going to bargain pay is intentional or otherwise. Nowhere in the law is there a limit or in any of the paper, instructions to Agency management to hold the pay line with the unions. Read it for yourself and decide whether the President’s union friends got a pass.
