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With the health care legislation that has occupied the political front pages for months now becoming law, what do readers think of it? A large majority says the legislation will be harmful to the country but others say it is a good start to reforming health care. Here are the results and representative comments.
This year, being 2010, there is no federal estate tax, regardless of the size of your estate. But what happens in 2011?
This bill has the following purpose: To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that premium pay be paid to Federal employees whose official duties require the use of one or more languages besides English.
This bill provides “restroom gender parity in federal buildings.” It provides “that the number of toilets in women’s restrooms will equal or exceed the number of toilets (including urinals) in men’s restrooms….”
A bill introduced in the House could allow retiring federal employees to enhance their Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) accounts by allowing payments for unused annual leave to be added to their TSP accounts.
This bill introduced in the House would to allow retiring Thrift Savings Plan participants to deposit some or all of the cash value of their unused annual leave in their accounts.
No matter how skillfully you phrase it, bad news will hurt, frustrate or anger your readers. But there is a right way and a wrong way to do it.
How does agency “accommodation” of an employee’s medical condition impact disability retirement?
Do federal employees have access to human resources advice and assistance? If they do have access, are they satisfied with the quality and professionalism of the advice? Here is how readers responded to a recent survey on the federal human resources service available to them.
The FLRA conducted Focus Groups in Washington on revising its regulations. This article reports the discussion at one of these sessions and provides information on FLRA’s decision to offer regional Focus Groups as well.
