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An employee of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs was fired for failing to follow a supervisor’s instructions and then used “disrespectful language and made inappropriate statements.” The employee argued that she was a whistleblower and that the agency had committed procedural error but, after all appeals, remains a former federal employee.
January is often cited as a harbinger for stock market returns for the remainder of the year. TSP investors are hoping that does not hold true for 2009. The stock market dropped significantly, breaking a 113 year record for the lowest returns in January. The January Thrift Savings Plan returns reflect the market decline.
The author asks whether there’s any significance to the new administration’s choice of labor related signings last week in which a rumored return to the Clinton era didn’t materialize.
Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) says that more paid leave for federal employees is “an issue of fairness” in introducing the Senate version of the Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act.
The are different types of individual retirement accounts (IRA’s) and the requirements for investing in them are different. Here is an explanation.
Performance pay plans are continuing in the federal government. A recent example: A pay-for-performance demonstration plan has been approved for about 2800 non-bargaining unit employees of the Food Safety and Inspection Service of USDA.
The U.S. Postal Service says it is looking at a loss of $6 billion or more in fiscal year 2009. The agency is freezing some salaries, reducing travel and construction, and accepting early retirements. The agency wants more flexibility in “workforce flexibility” and to deliver mail five days a week instead of six.
A decision needs to be made as to whether pay-for-performance for federal employees should be expanded or concluded.
With an executive order on Federal labor relations from the new administration expected very soon, the author examines what happened in the Clinton administration and suggests that Interest Based Bargaining or any other mandated negotiating process may be doomed from the outset if prior lessons go unheeded.
Can an agency reassign a federal employee to a position the employee considers less desirable without giving an employee the right to appeal? In this case, the MSPB and the Court gave a clear answer.
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