How did your TSP investments perform last month? See the latest monthly TSP performance at TSPDataCenter.com.
How can a bargaining team get a reasonable contract for a federal agency? “Be gentle with the union’s chief negotiator” (Rule 11) Here are several tips for getting through the bargaining process successfully from an experienced negotiator.
An earlier article on dress codes in the federal workplace generated many comments from federal employees. Here is a follow-up article to address some of the issues raised by readers.
Readers have strong opinions about Congressional involvement in the TSP and fear that the pot of money is an irresistible temptation for lawmakers.
If you are getting ready to bargain an agreement with a federal employee union, you should have a good understanding of the concepts and processes involved in the bargaining arena. Here are some practical tips you can use to reach an acceptable agreement in less time.
A federal attorney appealed his removal for a Hatch Act violation to the Court of Federal Appeals but his removal stands.
Multiple appeal procedures can muddle a case. In this instance, a federal employee who took leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to care for a terminally ill husband took the leave under false pretenses. But an EEOC ruling on the employee’s harassment case complicates the issue. A federal court send the case back to the MSPB to “resolve inconsistencies, if any.”
Would you prefer to have your TSP money only being invested in “socially responsible” companies as defined by Congress or the TSP?
Your TSP funds did very well in May. Here are the results. What does the future hold? We should be at the end of a long bull market but some optimists see a very bright future for stocks.
The FLRA has labor relations experts. The NLRB also hasLR experts and has been around much longer deciding cases similar to those decided by the FLRA. The FLRA recently had the opportunity to tell the NLRB it was not taking the correct approach in making a unit determination for its own employees.
An employee of the Social Security Administration, described in a court’s opinion as “an energetic federal employee who has previously received awards for other suggestions that were adopted by the SSA…”, has gone to court to get more money. He received awards of $1300 and $24,350 and the agency recommended a 3rd award of more than $32,000 which was rejected by OPM. The court did not mind second-guessing OPM and SSA on their handling of the suggestion process but declined to make its own determination on award amounts.
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