Readers Identify Issues, Preferences for Upcoming Elections
Readers predict Democrats will take over control of the legislative branch in November.
Readers predict Democrats will take over control of the legislative branch in November.
Here is a unique way to seek a significant promotion in government service. A federal employee submitted letters from her doctor indicating she could not perform the duties of a lower level job. She argued the agency should therefore give her a promotion to a higher level position.
Can sending an e-mail message to your friends and colleagues get a federal employee in trouble? Think before hitting the “send” button–the e-mail may come back to haunt you as these federal employees have found.
The records that are created in a federal disciplinary or performance case can be the difference between winning or losing. Here are tips on how to create an effective paper trail.
A legislative proposal would implement a pay for performance system that would create “less anxiety” among federal employees.
Many Federal retirees are on track for a 2.9% increase next year–and the figure is likely to be higher by the end of September.
A federal employee got reinstated after having signed a last chance agreement despite drinking while wearing the agency’s uniform. The court concluded that the VFW hall was not “public place.”
Members of Congress will be getting an annual pay increase along with civil service personnel.
A research scientist for NIH received more than $600,000 in fees from a drug company while he was providing to the company spinal fluid samples obtained as part of a government research project.
An administrative judge from the EEOC may be an expert on EEO cases but that does not carry over into the expertise of the Merit Systems Protection Board. When an EEOC administative judge told a federal employee he could appeal to the Board, the MSPB and the courts did not hesitate to correct his “misplaced” advice.