Snippet of Article: "...the proposals, which Corker has shared with Congressional leaders and the White House, do not represent serious solutions for avoiding the fiscal cliff. He criticized the plan for “relying heavily on federal workforce cuts.”..."
Source: www.washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "..."Stresses on public servants - including continued tight budgets and pay freezes - are reflected in our Global Satisfaction indicator, even while more than two-thirds of employees recommend their organization as a good place to work," says Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry, in a letter attached to the survey results. ..."
Source: www.wtop.comSnippet of Article: "...Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) warned on Sunday that those employed in the defense industry should be worried about the possibility of sequestration...."
Source: www.politico.comSnippet of Article: "...The legislation provides millions of federal workers with the rights they need to safely report government corruption and wrongdoing. "After a 13 year rollercoaster campaign..."
Source: www.climatesciencewatch.orgSnippet of Article: "...Government Liquidation (GL), a Liquidity Services, Inc. marketplace is the exclusive contractor of the DLA Disposition Services for the sale of surplus and scrap assets of the United States Department of Defense (DOD). GL operates an innovative and powerful online sales channel that enables surplus buyers to purchase available government assets in a convenient and open environment. GL utilizes world-class logistics, technology, marketing and customer service capabilities to assemble and promotes available property for the convenience of its buyers. With over 500 different commodity categories and thousands of surplus items added weekly to our inventory,..."
Source: www.govliquidation.comSnippet of Article: "...“This agreement will mean better working conditions, fair evaluation practices and safer workplaces, and in doing so, it will improve morale. This is important because low morale leads to unsafe levels of attrition in an agency where a stable, professional workforce of career employees is vital to its national security mission...."
Source: www.afge.orgSnippet of Article: "...FBI agents are at the North Carolina home of the woman whose affair with retired general David Petraeus led to his resignation as CIA director...."
Source: www.usatoday.comSnippet of Article: "...Concerned that emails Petraeus exchanged with Broadwell raised the possibility of a security breach, the FBI brought the matter up with him directly, according to the official..."
Source: www.chicagotribune.comSnippet of Article: "...WARN offers protection to workers, their families and communities by requiring employers to provide notice 60 days in advance of covered plant closings and covered mass layoffs. This notice must be provided to either affected workers or their representatives (e.g., a labor union); to the State dislocated worker unit; and to the appropriate unit of local government...."
Source: www.doleta.govSnippet of Article: "...Federal employees, retirees and survivors can choose coverage from the widest selection of health plans in the country. ..."
Source: www.opm.govSnippet of Article: "...Job loss estimates due to sequestration include 48,059 jobs in health care, 98,953 in construction, 473,250 in manufacturing and 617,449 federal positions...."
Source: thegazette.comSnippet of Article: "...Federal government buildings in the D.C. area will reopen Wednesday, according to the Office of Personnel Management. Unscheduled leave and telework will be in effect...."
Source: www.federalnewsradio.comSnippet of Article: "...Non-emergency employees (including employees on pre-approved paid leave) will be granted excused absence (administrative leave) for the number of hours they were scheduled to work unless they..."
Source: Federal Employee NewsSnippet of Article: "...Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential candidate, may reprise a favorite campaign theme in his debate with Vice President Joe Biden tonight: Reliance on the federal government is bad...."
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Snippet of Article: "...President Obama plans to extend the pay freeze for federal workers through next March, and then they would get a meager 0.5% increase...."
Source: cnn.comSnippet of Article: "...Both Romney and Ryan have made it clear that they think federal workers are one reason the nation's deficit is too high, and have talked about shrinking payrolls and cutting benefits...."
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Source: usajobs.govSnippet of Article: "...Nearly all federal civilian employees will have an extra pay period for leave accrual this year. According to a memo from Angela Bailey, OPM’s Associate Director for Employee Services, the leave year for most federal employees began on January 1, 2012 and will end on January 12, 2013...."
Source: www.asmconline.orgSnippet of Article: "...Federal retirees will receive an inflation adjustment of 1.7 percent in January, translating to about a $50 increase in the average monthly payment under the annuity program for most of them...."
Source: www.washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "...This memorandum provides agencies with information on the Federal Government’s longstanding policy of granting employees limited time off from work (i.e., excused absence) to vote in Federal, State, county, or municipal elections, or in referendums on any civic matter in their community. The head of each agency (or his or her designee) has discretion to grant excused absence in limited circumstances under his or her broad authority to govern, unless otherwise prohibited by law. Agencies have discretionary authority to grant excused absence to the extent that such time off does not interfere with agency operations, including the ability to adjust policies to circumstances as they unfold. Typically, polling places throughout the United States are open for extended periods of time, and an increasing number of jurisdictions are offering early voting options. Therefore, excused absence should rarely be needed.Agencies should consider the following guidelines when creating their policies on excused absence for voting in the upcoming election...."
Source: www.chcoc.govSnippet of Article: "...The APWU has negotiated a retirement incentive agreement that awards eligible full-time career employees a $15,000 payment in two installments, President Cliff Guffey has announced. The first installment will be $10,000; the second will be $5,000...."
Source: www.apwu.orgSnippet of Article: "...“In this instance the attack was identified, the system was isolated, and there is no indication whatsoever that any exfiltration of data took place,” the official said. The official said there was no impact or attempted breach of a classified system within the office...."
Source: freebeacon.comSnippet of Article: "...a 0.5 percent raise in April, while federal employee unions are pushing for such an increase to be made retroactive to the start of 2013. ..."
Source: www.washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "...On average, FEHB Program enrollees with self only coverage will pay $2.75 more per bi-weekly pay period, and enrollees with family coverage will pay $6.39 more. Premiums for Health Maintenance Organizations will increase an average of 5.3 percent, while Fee-for-Service plans will see an average increase of 3.0 percent...."
Source: www.opm.govSnippet of Article: "...The newest estimate comes as CBO was putting a price tag on S 2259, the Senate’s version of a bill to increase veterans’ disability and survivor benefits by the same COLA paid to Social Security recipients. The House of Representatives already has passed a similar bill, HR 4114, in July...."
Source: www.marinecorpstimes.comSnippet of Article: "...The average premium for federal employees will rise 3.4 percent next year, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced Thursday. The increase translates to an extra..."
Source: Federal Retirement NewsSnippet of Article: "..."I will look to sharply increase the productivity of Washington by reducing federal government employment by 10 percent through attrition, by combining agencies and departments to reduce overhead, by cracking down on the $115 billion a year in improper payments in government programs, and by aligning government compensation with that of the private sector," Romney told the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce...."
Source: www.govexec.comSnippet of Article: "...Alabama-based American Apparel was forced to close one plant and downsize at others due to the loss of contracts to prison inmates, according to company spokesman and retired Air Force Colonel Kurt Wilson. A total of 190 employees had their hours cut and 255 others were laid off this year.
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Snippet of Article: "...It is absolutely unfair to federal employees to delay the pay raise until the expiration of the CR. Federal employees bear no responsibility for the inability of the House and Senate to reconcile ..."
Source: thehill.comSnippet of Article: "...the man who walked into a downtown federal office building Friday and said something about being on the government's terrorist watch list...."
Source: www.kfdi.comSnippet of Article: "...All in all, sequestration could lead to 270,000 lost federal jobs throughout the government, and the furloughs of thousands more.
“And that’s just the first installment,” said Doug Criscitello, a former chief financial officer at the Housing and Urban Development Department and current managing director at Grant Thornton. “There’s nine of them [years of cuts]...."
Snippet of Article: "...The American Federation of Government Employees filed an unfair labor practice charge with the Federal Labor Relations Authority, saying the firings of the two employees and disciplinary actions against two other employees were to "chill employees in the exercise of their rights to participate with the union." The scientists worked for the Ecosystems Research Division of the EPA's National Exposure Research Lab. ..."
Source: www.federalnewsradio.comSnippet of Article: "...even greater concern is more than 28 months after opening negotiations on the union contract in May 2010, AFGE Council 238 and EPA have yet to move past the preliminary step of establishing ground rules for those negotiations. "It's a total failure of bargaining in good faith," said AFGE Labor Relations Specialist Derrick Davis. "In more than 30 years of negotiating these types of agreements, I have never been involved in a ground rules negotiation that has taken so long...."
Source: www.heraldonline.comSnippet of Article: "...Mexican officials said Wednesday that two Americans wounded in a shooting attack by federal police on a U.S. Embassy vehicle are employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, and acknowledged they have returned to the United States...."
Source: go.comSnippet of Article: "... "Federal compensation exceeds private sector levels by as much as 30 to 40 percent when benefits are taken into account," according to a statement on Romney's website. "This must be corrected."
Similarly, Romney's choice for vice president, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), has also proposed scaling back federal benefits. ..."
Snippet of Article: "...Members of Congress are on track to receive a pay raise in 2013, unless they vote against it when they return from August recess...."
Source: www.govexec.comSnippet of Article: "...Monitoring of federal workers prompts privacy worries: Privacy advocates have raised concerns about the increased monitoring of federal workers’ computers, The Washington Post reported, as agencies work to catch information leaks...."
Source: www.washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "...The two U.S. officials, employees of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, were wounded but in stable condition in a hospital and didn't have life-threatening injuries, the statement said. ..."
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