East Coast HR Event EEO, HR/ER & Management sessions deliver compliance guidance to meet the myriad legal requirements governing your federal workplace. (Advertisement) Daily Headlines for March 7, 2011 | D.C. Circuit Gives Agencies the Specifics About Informal Counseling | The court vacated a previous decision dismissing a class action discrimination case against the Federal Reserve Board for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. At issue was whether the individual complainants offered sufficient specific instances of discrimination during group counseling sessions or participated in the informal process "in good faith."
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| How the Feds Can Preserve Cash to Delay Debt Limit | To free up cash, the Treasury can halt reinvestment of the G-Fund, which had net assets of about $125 billion at the end of 2010. The Treasury could also suspend payments to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, a government employee pension fund.
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| Federal Labor Relations Compared to Controversial State Plans | With private-sector unions continuing to wither, public sector labor groups now constitute the core of the Democratic coalition. The controversial plan in Wisconsin and similar legislation in Ohio, Tennessee and elsewhere would in many ways treat state workers the same as employees of the federal government.
Posted: 3/5 |
| Aggressively Pursuing Federal Employees Who Leak Information |  | The Obama administration, which pledged to be the most transparent in American history, is pursuing an aggressive legal offensive against federal workers who leak secret information to expose wrongdoing, highlight national security threats or pursue a personal agenda.
Posted: 3/7 |
| Defending Federal Salary Levels | "[A]s a journalist for over 30 years I have dealt with hundreds of government employees, at all levels. Overall, my opinion of their quality, dedication and knowledge is very high. There have been knotheads and worse, but no higher a percentage than in the private sector...again and again, they have gone beyond the required."
Posted: 3/7 |
| TSA Employee Arrested for Helping Others Evade Security Procedures | A Transportation Security Administration employee has been charged with helping an alleged drug kingpin and other suspect travelers evade security at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport. She has been suspended from her job as a behavioral detection officer for the TSA and pleaded not guilty to federal charges.
Posted: 3/7 |
| Shutdown Update | Debate over the budget will continue as both sides work to strike a deal and the Senate holds test votes to see where lawmakers stand. The temporary resolution funding the government will expire March 18.
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| Agencies Cut Hiring Times | OPM's fiscal 2010 performance report noted that since December 2009, agencies have been mapping their hiring processes and tallying the average number of days it takes to hire a new employee. The fiscal 2010 average number of days to hire was 105 days, an improvement over the 2009 number of 122 days, OPM said.
Posted: 3/4 |
| Innovative Leadership in Government: One Example of How It Can Make a Difference | Innovative leadership in this federal agency made a major difference in the environmental condition of the United States. This federal employee writes that "one decision, on that one day we removed the Superfund program from life-support systems...and led to EPA averaging over 80 construction completions per year for the next decade."
Posted: 3/4 |
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