Daily Headlines for April 22, 2011 | Rep. John J. Duncan Jr (R-TN) Wants Revamping of Federal Personnel Policies |  | A series of embarrassing blunders involving an air traffic controller at McGhee Tyson Airport and other controllers across the country may have put the Federal Aviation Administration on the spot, but U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. thinks the revelations point to a much bigger problem: "There are too many protections for most federal workers," Duncan said. "It's too hard to get rid of lazy, incompetent people."
Posted: 4/22 |
| Who is the Nation's Highest Paid Federal Employee? | The nation's highest-paid federal employee lives on the East Coast and grew up playing sports and going to high school in Hawaii. Hint: it's not the President or a position that one would normally think of as a federal job.
Posted: 4/22 |
| No Campaign Pics of Obama Allowed In Federal Offices | With the 2012 presidential race heating up, federal workers are being reminded to keep campaign paraphernalia out of the office - and not to draw halos or horns around the head of President Obama.
Posted: 4/21 |
| Poll: Most Americans Oppose Raising Debt Limit | Despite Obama administration warnings that failing to do so would devastate the economy, a clear majority of Americans say they oppose raising the debt limit, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows.
Posted: 4/22 |
| Many TSA Employees May Not Want to be Unionized | Many TSA employees believe they need a union to help them with work-related issues such as scheduling and overtime. But looking at the results of a 6-week telephone/mail ballot, it appears many TSA workers don't want to be represented by a union.
Posted: 4/22 |
| Student Employee of the Year Aspires to Federal Career | Ryan Hollamby, a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, hopes to use his degree in Environmental Science to one day work for a government agency such as the United States Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management as a national resource specialist.
Posted: 4/21 |
| VA Employee Pleads Guilty To Theft Of Funds | A Veterans Affairs employee accused of fraudulently obtaining Social Security disability payments was among five people who entered guilty pleas to federal crimes in separate cases last week in Martinsburg's U.S. District Court.
Posted: 4/21 |
| Fort Lee Subcontractor Faces Possible 20-Year Prison Term | An employee of a subcontractor hired to install fire sprinklers in the Army Sustainment Center of Excellence at Fort Lee has pleaded guilty to a charge of knowingly altering documents to obstruct a federal investigation.
Posted: 4/22 |
| Fairhope, AL Man Named to Air Force Hall of Fame | Cecil Harvell was recently named to the Air Force Communications and Information Hall of Fame. He worked as a civilian employee of the Air Force at Brookley Field for 12 years and in Washington for an additional 22 years, where he was engaged in engineering design and management of telecommunications systems for the military and for the space program.
Posted: 4/22 |
| About That OPM Retirement Processing Backlog... | A number of readers have asked about the backlog in processing retirement applications. OPM is making progress. The time it takes to process a retirement action has improved by about 15%. The agency's goal is to get the processing time down to 45 days.
Posted: 4/20 | | RELATED HEADLINES: |
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