Who will receive your federal pension payments after your death? While an ideal relationship may be a couple getting married and living together for many years, reality can be different. With complex relationships, determining the disposition of a federal pension payment may provide employment for a number of people. Here is one of these cases.
An employee who spent about 13 minutes an hour on the phone (623 calls in one 47 hour period) found himself reprimanded, suspended and then fired. He claimed the agency lied and that he should not be fired because he had been a federal employee for a long time.
What characteristics make for an effective supervisor? After reading this article, which also describes a former federal employee’s personal experiences as an employee and as a supervisor, you will have a good idea of the varied skills and attributes necessary to succeed in this difficult task.
“It’s no surprise that adamant union advocates would demand that NLRB’s staff be permitted union representation. Likewise it should be no surprise that a company which deals with NLRB would doubt its ability to get a fair shake listening to the NLRBU’s rhetoric.”
Many contemplating retirement wonder if they should purchase a survivor annuity or purchase life insurance. Here are several considerations you should contemplate when making this decision.
Deep Throat was an anonymous source for information given to the Washington Post about former President Richard Nixon. Deep Throat was an anonymous federal employee with inside information. The saga continues with disputes about the large amount of money that may be reaped from the story.
The Social Security earning ceiling is going up by $4,800 over this years limit. If you make more than the ceiling, you will get a raise of 6.2%.
A dispute between the National Labor Relations Board Union and the agency is heating up as the union begins picketing and calling for the resignation of the agency’s General Counsel. The NLRB responds with its own press release.
What happens to information in agency case files when an agency employee with access to those files pursues his own complaint? Can the employee in the human resources or EEO office use those files to his own advantage? In a complex case, the MSPB upholds a 30-day suspension of a federal employee who had access to private information and who also had his own axe to grind.
A rational person could read recent financial headlines and conclude that the end of wealth accumulation was at hand. A credit crunch, falling housing prices, falling stock prices and general panic seemed to be in the air. How did TSP investors react? Did they bail out of their TSP stock funds? Here are the statistics that reflect the actions of your fellow investors.
