Daily Headlines for November 10, 2010 | You Represent a Multibillion-Dollar, World-Famous Entity | Your agency is a multibillion-dollar organization we all know by name. Any employee who takes a phone call or greets a walk-in is acting as the agency's sole representative for that person. Has your agency trained you to think of your role in those terms?
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| FLRA's "Comprehensive Arbitration Training" | The Federal Labor Relations Authority conducted training on Federal sector arbitration last month. If you missed it and want copies of the slides and handouts, the Author provides them and a comment.
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| About Your 2011 Pay Raise... | The number of federal workers earning $150,000 or more a year has soared in the past five years and doubled since President Obama took office. Federal workers earning $150,000 or more make up 3.9% of the workforce, up from 0.4% in 2005. "Every metric shows we're heading in the wrong direction."
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| When He Was Known as "Barry" Instead of "Barack" | "The two houses where he spent part of his boyhood stand pretty much the way they did when he went back to Hawaii four decades ago. The two schools he attended have grown larger but, in spirit, remain unchanged. Some of his old friends can still be found around the neighborhood."
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| How Safe is Your Identity? | Federal employees are alarmed after a colleague disclosed their names and social security numerals of the agency’s staff at the General Services Administration.
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| Why Veteran's Day is Not a 3-Day Holiday | Congress likes to make as many 3-day holidays as possible--often without much regard to the reason for the holiday in the first place. Veteran's Day is still celebrated on November 11 though--even when that date is not a Friday or a Monday.
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| Betty White, the Forest Ranger |  | The U.S. Forest Service just jumped onto the Betty bandwagon. White threw herself into the public relations gambit -- wearing her ranger hat, clutching a stuffed Smokey Bear, grinning from ear to ear and looking thrilled to death.
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| Finalists in Federal "Super Saver" Program | Designed to streamline government by eliminating waste, four federal employees are now vying for a chance to meet the president and see their idea implemented.
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| Political Correctness and the Federal Workforce | Has America become too politically correct or do we still have further to go? About 2500 readers expressed their view on a topic that generated one of the most uniform responses we have had in our survey results--even though the answers were not always politically correct.
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