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| Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) |
Snippet of Article: "...The Department of Veterans Affairs spent $5 million last year, and set aside $4 million more, for two training conferences, and now the organizers are under investigation into whether they broke ethics rules by improperly accepting gifts, lawmakers and government sources said...."
Source: www.sfgate.comSnippet of Article: "...President Obama on Tuesday said he would use his authority to give federal employees an across-the-board 0.5 percent pay raise in 2013, but the increase will not take effect until Congress passes a budget...."
Source: www.nationaljournal.comSnippet of Article: "...The government’s central personnel agency has said that allowing federal employees to phase into retirement is one of its important goals and it will make the option available “as soon as possible.”..."
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
Snippet of Article: "...For federal, state and local government workers around the country, Ryan is unions’ worst nightmare. He believes unions are antithetical to free enterprise, not a way to protect workers against intolerable working conditions and exploitation by money-grubbing corporations, more concerned about the bottom line than employee welfare. ..."
Source: www.examiner.comSnippet of Article: "...Moten said that most federal employees as well as the union believe that despite hyper-partisan exchanges in Washington, the political parties will come to some agreement to defuse the crisis before the Jan. 2 deadline...."
Source: www.washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "...Managers are bracing for significant program and service cutbacks and staffing changes, including possible furloughs and layoffs. In some agencies, the impact includes delays in filling critical vacancies and in signing new contracts or renewing existing ones..."
Source: www.washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "...The Senate’s version of the $604.5 billion appropriations bill does not mention a pay raise for the Pentagon’s civilian employees, in keeping with silence from lawmakers in both chambers of Congress on President Obama’s request for a..."
Source: www.govexec.comSnippet of Article: "...U.S. regulators are investigating two near-midair collisions involving three US Airways Group Inc. (LCC) (LCC) regional jets near Washington’s Reagan National Airport on July 31.
An air-traffic controller cleared two planes..."
Snippet of Article: "...If you are a Veteran you have a couple of different tools that can give you an edge in getting a civil service (Federal) job: the Preference Points and Veteran's Recruitment Appointment rule. ..."
Source: militaryvet.blogspot.comSnippet of Article: "...Moreover, to comply with a separate Congressional law, layoff notices must be given 60 days prior to any federal employee personnel cuts. That means that four days before the election, a bunch of workers in the Pentagon and throughout government, including a large segment working in the swing state of Virginia, are likely to get a pink slip...."
Source: firedoglake.comSnippet of Article: "...several plans to avoid sequestration would hit federal employees in other ways. House Budget Committee Republicans are citing as an alternative a bill the House passed in May. That bill would require all federal employees to pay an additional 5 percent of salary toward their retirement annuities, beginning with a 1.5 percent increase in 2013...."
Source: www.washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "...for federal and postal workers and for retired and about-to-retire civil servants. At issue are how much (if any) of an inflation-catchup federal retirees will get in January, how much (if any) the 2013 federal pay raise will be and how much take-home pay will be cut if workers are forced to pay more for their future pensions. ..."
Source: www.federalnewsradio.comSnippet of Article: "...some of the best financial questions that have been raised in our seminars by your fellow federal workers. ..."
Source: www.federalnewsradio.comSnippet of Article: "...Beginning July 1, overnight single piece first class mail delivery will end. Henceforth, delivery will take two to three days. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe announced..."
Source: patch.comSnippet of Article: "...For federal employees already enrolled in the FEHP, “it basically means very little,” Walton Francis, primary author of the Consumers’ Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees, said of the ruling...."
Source: www.nationaljournal.comSnippet of Article: "...Several other factors also have come into play as the NPMHU dispute resolution process unfolds. First and foremost, the American Postal Workers Union and the Postal Service reached a comprehensive agreement in March 2011, and that agreement has been held out by some as a pattern or a baseline for future negotiations. Second, the National Association of Letter Carriers is also currently involved in interest arbitration, and has recently announced the selection of Arbitrator Shyam Das as the neutral arbitrator on that panel. Third, and perhaps of most importance, the Postal Service and the National Rural Letter Carriers Association have finalized their interest arbitration hearings, which began in December 2011, and are awaiting the decision from their panel, which is headed by Arbitrator Jack Clarke. The status of the bargaining agreements for our three sister postal unions clearly could have an effect on what is already an exceedingly complicated process regarding the NPMHU-USPS contract dispute...."
Source: www.npmhu.orgSnippet of Article: "..."Fast and Furious" is the name ATF assigned to a group of Phoenix, Arizona-area gun trafficking cases under Project Gunrunner that began in fall of 2009. It's the largest of several known operations in which ATF employed gunwalking..."
Source: www.cbsnews.comSnippet of Article: "...application puts the power of searching for a Federal job at your fingertips. This application is a companion to USAJOBS.gov, the official job site of the US Federal Government..."
Source: android-apps-iphone-apps.blogspot.comSnippet of Article: "...There are four months left to go in the retiree COLA countdown. The bad-news-good-news is that if the CPI continues to drop it will be because of lower gasoline prices and reduces prices for key staple items...."
Source: federal-retirement.blogspot.comSnippet of Article: "...The FERS annuity supplement is computed as if you were age 62 and fully insured for a social security benefit when the supplement begins. OPM first estimates what your full career (40 years) social security benefit would be. Then we calculate the amount of your civilian service under FERS and reduce the estimated full career social security benefit accordingly. For example, if your estimated full career social security benefit would be $1,000 and you had worked 30 years under FERS, we would divide 30 by 40 (.75) and multiply ($1,000 x .75 = $750). The result would be your FERS annuity supplement, prior to any reductions...."
Source: www.opm.govSnippet of Article: "...In a case brought by the American Federation of Government Employees, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has upheld the right of federal unions to negotiate certain issues surrounding an agency's implementation of a Reduction in Force...."
Source: www.marketwatch.comSnippet of Article: "...The greatest need is for clinical psychiatrists, said one of the post's psychiatrists, Maj. Joe Wise. "We'd love to have a flood of interest from clinical psychiatrists," he said, "but we're still recruiting and waiting."
On the USA Jobs website, the psychiatrist postings at Fort Campbell offered salaries starting at $96,000 up to $195,000. Competitive benefits packages are included and relocation expenses are paid up to 25 percent of salary...."
USPS employees can help promote semipostal stamps | Special T-shirts are available for purchase through Aug. 15 Snippet of Article: ...
