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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…
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…
Now that we have an Obama Administration, the author asks if Democratic congressional initiatives will get new legs. One, in particular, establishes a right to collective bargaining for…
Federal pay for performance systems have run into opposition and mixed reviews. This article considers awards, cost of administering the programs, inflated ratings, and distinguishing between the pay-banding…
As President Obama is inaugurated, the author suggests agencies should revisit their approaches to labor relations. He provides a list of ten things every Agency should be doing…
A Veterans Affairs exercise therapist at the VA medical center in Memphis lost his court appeal seeking to overturn his firing for engaging in a prohibited relationship with…
There is no perfect compensation system. If the Obama administration and the Democratic congress want to extend pay-for-performance experiments to the rest of government, they would do well…
The author recaps FedSmith stories that its authors couldn't have made up had they tried all year. These stories require no suspension of belief by the reader. All…
The Federal Circuit of Appeals has concluded that the OPM regulation on excepted service positions violates the law. It is "at odds with the statutory protections Congress guaranteed…
A federal employee argued that her resignation was involuntary and therefore an adverse action. The case went back to court a second time after the employee, who had…