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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.
In a possible historic clash of the Counsels General, the Authority finds NLRB guilty of an Unfair Labor Practice for, mostly, refusing to bargain with a union representing…
An MSPB report explains how the GS pay system was designed as a type of pay-for-performance system.
The author addresses issues raised by FedSmith readers on "bullying" in the workplace.
The Author discusses the permissive area of the Federal labor law that Federal unions want the President to direct Agencies to bargain. He asks whether there might be…
The author asks whether there's any significance to the new administration's choice of labor related signings last week in which a rumored return to the Clinton era didn't…
With an executive order on Federal labor relations from the new administration expected very soon, the author examines what happened in the Clinton administration and suggests that Interest…
As President Obama is inaugurated, the author suggests agencies should revisit their approaches to labor relations. He provides a list of ten things every Agency should be doing…
The MSPB issued a study urging agencies to involve employees early and often in decisions involving their work.
There is no perfect compensation system. If the Obama administration and the Democratic congress want to extend pay-for-performance experiments to the rest of government, they would do well…
If smoking is not allowed inside a government building, or around the outside of a federal building, where will smokers smoke? Federal employee unions may be working hard…