One can almost detect the appeals court’s exasperation with the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Office of Personnel Management as it sorts out this tangled mess involving one deceased Forest Service employee, two surviving spouses, lengthy state court litigation, and an effort by OPM to make one of the women reimburse annuity payments she received erroneously-even though she had already paid them over to the other spouse.
From proposed pension changes to a petition for an extra day off at Christmas to the end of the pay freeze, here are the top stories on FedSmith.com in 2012.
A list of some questions and answers about a government shutdown including topics such as veterans’ pensions, pay for the military, and distribution of benefits.
MSPB’s Chairman McPhie says “Alternative discipline is a great tool for supervisors to consider if they have an employee who is engaging in misconduct”.
Federal facilities, employees and leaders have been targets of both the deranged and those seeking to make a point in a variety of ways, some horrible, some banal and everywhere in between. When an emergency occurs in the federal workplace, are you prepared to deal with it? Here is advice that could be useful to anyone and help your colleagues and your federal career.
