Bargaining over Policies, Instructions, Directives: Ten Ideas to Consider
If your agency is making changes and intends to notify its union(s), you will probably end up bargaining with the union. These tips can increase your leverage.
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If your agency is making changes and intends to notify its union(s), you will probably end up bargaining with the union. These tips can increase your leverage.
An amendment to expand federal employee benefits has again died in the Senate after passing in the House. The withdrawal of the amendment kills, at least for the moment, a proposal to provide credit for unused sick leave for FERS employees upon retirement.
The possible elimination of knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) in filling jobs has triggered a virtual avalanche of articles and discussion. Even OPM can’t wave a magic wand and make KSAs disappear, since the requirement to use them is embedded in law, so the question seems to be how, not if, they will be used.
KSA’s will likely begin to be phased out starting later this year. But for the time being, applicants still need to be aware of their importance.
It has been suggested that KSAs should be eliminated, but the author disagrees.
The last thing you want to have happen is spending all day on your KSA responses, only to find you submitted them in the wrong format and that they didn’t even get reviewed. Here are suggestion to improve your prospects of obtaining the job you want.
Getting the most out of your government career is not unlike any other career; you simply need to know what to do and where to look for any answers you seek.
It can be difficult and time consuming to prepare KSA statement responses. However, they are a critical component to your federal job application package.
The President has nominated a couple of DC area locals. The author asks if the unions will oppose these nominees as “ideologues.”
Setting up a program to ensure it is successful means paying attention to details. A program to encourage suggestions from federal employees on how to improve government got considerable publicity. The result: A big yawn from the federal workforce. Perhaps the program sponsors should have told the federal workforce where to send their ideas instead of just extolling the benefits of their new idea for creating a 21st century bureaucracy.