Federal Workforce News
Governmentwide Categories of Non-General Schedule Employees
Locality pay extensions; government-wide categories of non-general schedule employees
Human Resources
Stay informed with the latest federal human resources news, including updates on federal employee unions, labor relations, collective bargaining, workplace policies, and federal HR guidance. This category covers OPM regulations, pay, leave, and benefits administration, labor‑management disputes, union negotiations, workplace rights, and major **HR policy changes.
Federal Workforce News
Extension of Locality Payments to Non-General Schedule Employees
The President's Pay Agent has decided to extend the 2011 locality payments to the same Governmentwide and single-agency categories of employees authorized to receive the 2010 locality payments.…
Human Resources
FLRA’s Christmas Present to a Union?
Groucho Marx said "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." In a recent arbitration appeal, the…
Human Resources
Official Summary of Telework Enhancement Act of 2010
This is the CRS summary of HR 1722 which as become the "Telework Enhancement Act of 2010"
Human Resources
Telework Enhancement Act of 2010
2010 would require each agency to establish a policy under which employees may be authorized to telework to the maximum extent possible without diminishing employee performance or agency…
Human Resources
Telework Bill for Federal Agencies Passed By Congress
The "Telework Enhancement Act of 2010" has been passed by Congress and sent to the President for signature. The bill is designed to increase the amount of telework…
Human Resources
The Crucial First Year in Federal Employment–A Time For New Approaches
The new employee probationary period is "the most elegantly simple program we have in Human Resources." Unlike many other areas of human resources the author has encountered, it…
Human Resources
FLRA’s B(1) Pilot Training Course Materials: Is Permissive Bargaining Now Mandatory?
The author requested and received FLRA’s training materials used to train participants in pilot programs in which parties will bargain agency permissive topics. These pilots dramatically expand union…
Human Resources
Scaring the Federal Employee: Furloughs, Pay Cuts, Hiring Freeze and Benefit Reduction
Look for scary stories about the impact on your federal career as a result of this week's election. Our advice: take a deep breath and think about the…
Human Resources
FLRA Town Hall Meeting in DC: Unions Ecstatic with LR Agency
The author passes on to the Federal labor relations community notes of the FLRA Town Hall meeting held on October 21. There's lots of information in them for…