Human Resources
The Best Employee Problem Solving Tool in the Box (Part 3)
Writing and delivering a memo to an employee can be useful. This article outlines what a guidance and direction memo should include.
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.
Human Resources
10 Ways to Make Federal Unions More Effective (Part 1)
How can federal employee unions improve their success when representing employees? Here are observations and suggestions from an experienced management negotiator.
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Let Them Drink Cola!
Appropriated funds cannot be used for buying drinking water for federal employees. Can a federal official be personally liable for buying drinking water for use by employees?
Human Resources
The Best Employee Problem Solving Tool in the Box: Part 2
Solving common workplace problems requires knowledge, patience and knowing how to use the human resources system effectively. Here are some quick tips for supervisors that may be helpful…
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The Best Employee Problem Solving Tool in Your Managerial Toolbox: Part 1
There are no problem employees; only employee problems for which managers must devise workable solutions. Here is one way to resolve common problems in the workplace.
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Timing is Everything: Agencies Should Consider Renegotiating Their Labor Agreement Now
Timing is important and this may be the time for agencies to renegotiate their labor agreements for federal employee unions.
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Kicking and Screaming into the New World of Federal Employment
Change is coming slowly to the federal human resources program but changes are being made with a backdrop of litigation and unhappiness.
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Labor Partnership Delayed Going to Court–Until The First Major Dispute Arose
Is litigation always part of change in the federal government? In this case, labor-management partnership may have delayed the inevitable but it did not stop it.
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Rating the “Clout Index” of Federal Employee Unions
Here is a "clout index" of several federal unions.
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Congress, Federal Employees and Ethics
Are Congressional ethics rules effective? Are the ethics rules effective for the federal workforce?