OPM Updates Weather Closure Procedures
OPM recently announced revisions to its bad weather policy statuses and procedures.
OPM recently announced revisions to its bad weather policy statuses and procedures.
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) has announced a plan he is putting forward to avoid going over the “fiscal cliff.” The plan includes a number of reforms that, if enacted, would directly impact the federal workforce.
The Office of Personnel Management has released guidelines for agencies to use for analyzing and acting on the results from the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.
The author notes that some readers who contacted him for clarification on the requirement to have insurance for five years before retirement have apparently been given incorrect information as to whether the time requirement also applies to a spouse. Here is a quick explanation of the time requirement.
If you have to call meetings with your staff (and you should consider seriously whether or not you really do), avoid making your meetings look like this.
The Postal Service is offering the “Letters from Santa” program to allow letters to be sent to children from Santa Claus and postmarked from the North Pole.
The author says that many people don’t consider the possibility of having performance appraisals that actually improve performance. He says that having a system designed to improve performance would be an appraisal system actually worth having instead of being just about the performance rating.
Writing is hard work, even if we think it isn’t supposed to be.
According to a record number of responses to the 2012 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, federal employees feel the work they do is important but the pay freeze has started to have an impact on morale.
FedSmith.com author Steve Oppermann recently found himself facing a frightening and painful series of life events in a second battle with cancer. He has chosen to share his personal story in the hope that it will be an inspiration to others who might find themselves in a similar situation.