News for the federal worker and those interested in official news of the federal government, federal civilian service employees and civil servants. Various federal news articles with reference citations.
Snippet of Article: "...30% of the federal workforce will be eligible to retire in the next three years, according to a Government Accountability Office report. That means the government could be hit by a wave of retirements at a time when it is already dealing with inadequate staffing..."
Source: cnn.comSnippet of Article: "...Office of Personnel Management is planning to offer buyouts and early retirements to nearly 300 employees — and some of those buyouts are likely to..."
Source: www.federaltimes.comSnippet of Article: "...Notices to federal government civilian employees and government contractor employees, letting them know they will be placed on mandatory one-day-a-week job furloughs for 11 weeks, began going out Tuesday. The process will continue through June 5...."
Source: www.lcsun-news.comSnippet of Article: "...Stopping investment into the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund will free up about another $79 billion...."
Source: www.fiercegovernment.comSnippet of Article: "...With a rifle, extra ammunition and lighter fluid, he hid in a treeline like a sniper to wait for the letter carrier to make her delivery. As she pulled away in her Jeep Cherokee, he shot ..."
Source: www.news.ruralinfo.netSnippet of Article: "...Postal inspectors said he is the lead suspect in the investigation into the slaying of 52-year-old Marie Youngblood. She was a U.S. Postal carrier who had been on her rural delivery route in her personal car on Friday in San Jacinto County. Youngblood worked out of the Coldspring branch...."
Source: www.khou.comSnippet of Article: "...Our borders are secure because of Homeland Security. Our airways are safe because of the TSA. Planes take off in an orderly fashion because of air-traffic controllers. Farmers have the latest technology to produce our food through the USDA. Health and Human Services makes sure we get the healthcare we need. The FBI protects us from criminals. The Secret Service protects..."
Source: www.miamiherald.comSnippet of Article: "...The accuracy of the Office of Personnel Management’s calculation of new federal pensions has slipped as it has worked to speed up its retirement processes, the agency’s inspector general is set to testify Thursday...."
Source: www.federaltimes.comSnippet of Article: "...There were blocks I worked on that I dreaded because you’d see dudes smoking weed, prostitution. There could be weapons involved, gangs. Sterling Place, all the way from Utica Avenue to Buffalo Avenue in Crown Heights — bad, bad, bad. It’s the gauntlet. Two of the worst blocks in Brooklyn for a letter carrier — no question...."
Source: www.nypost.comSnippet of Article: "...The 21st annual drive is Saturday, May 11, and more than 1,400 NALC branches in just about every city, state and territory will have letter carriers, family members and thousands of volunteers out and about to help collect, sort and distribute the cans, boxes and jars of non-perishable food items left in bags next to customers’ mailboxes...."
Source: www.nalc.orgSnippet of Article: "...“The neighborhood is bad,” the worker said outside the Brownsville Station Post Office on Bristol Street. “I wouldn’t want to go into those buildings.”..."
Source: www.nypost.comSnippet of Article: "...The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act called for the establishment of a Post-Combat Case Coordinator at each agency. The coordinator should help civilians who “incur injury, disability or illness while in a war-risk hazard assignment,” according to OPM’s memo. ..."
Source: www.govexec.comSnippet of Article: "...Everett Dutschke, whose Tupelo, Miss., home was searched Tuesday by dozens of officials, some in hazmat suits, had feuded with Paul Kevin Curtis, a 45-year-old celebrity impersonator who had maintained his innocence since his arrest...."
Source: time.comSnippet of Article: "...every bomb technician from every civilian agency has graduated from the same Hazardous Devices School, run jointly by the Army and the FBI at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. “When we go on the scene, we’re working side by side with people who went to the same school,”..."
Source: www.kansas.comSnippet of Article: "...Newly enhanced security checks have put some federal workers in limbo, unable to work or receive paychecks while they wait to be cleared...."
Source: hamptonroads.comSnippet of Article: "...The service isn't losing money on delivery, but adding addresses while losing volume is an issue, she says...."
Source: www.courierpress.comSnippet of Article: "...The White House on Thursday ordered limits on the payment of monetary awards and incentives to federal workers..."
Source: www.washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "...killed an Army civilian employee in a parking lot outside a Fort Knox building -- in a shooting that they said stemmed from a personal dispute..."
Source: www.cnn.comSnippet of Article: "...Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), author of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act cybersecurity bill, said Thursday that the bill's "information sharing" aspect does not seek to share citizens' information with the government...."
Source: www.usnews.comSnippet of Article: "... not every government worker will feel the pain equally, according to The Washington Post, and some employees won't feel it at all, depending on how the various departments of government implement the automatic cuts that began on March 1...."
Source: www.newsmax.comSnippet of Article: "...The Pentagon has delayed sending furlough notices to its civilian employees for two weeks while it studies legislation that would give it more flexibility in spending its budget for the rest of the year, according to a memo released Thursday...."
Source: www.usatoday.comSnippet of Article: "...The multiple agency effort is focused on coordinating any actions that might be necessary to protect public health, safety and the environment, and on working with the Consulate-General of Japan in Seattle to find out if the boat came from Japan and to locate its owner...."
Source: kbkw.comSnippet of Article: "...The controversy took hold after witnesses traveling with Cpl. Toran Gaal, an wounded Marine, contacted Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., to say TSA agents forced Gaal to remove his prosthetic legs and try to walk at the checkpoint. ..."
Source: www.usatoday.comSnippet of Article: "...congressional Republicans failed to reach a deal to avert automatic reductions that could dampen economic growth and curb military readiness...."
Source: www.chicagotribune.comSnippet of Article: "...Federal workers now have a convenient way to calculate their loss in pay if planned furloughs of about 800,000 Defense Department civilians take effect...."
Source: www.stripes.comSnippet of Article: "...Federal workers could start facing furloughs as early as April, according to federal agencies..."
Source: www.businessrecord.comSnippet of Article: "...Federal agencies will begin implementing cuts amounting to 13 percent for defense programs and 9 percent for non-defense programs on March 1, unless Congress acts to prevent them...."
Source: www.washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "...President Obama will propose a 1 percent pay raise for federal civilian employees in the administration’s fiscal 2014 budget proposal..."
Source: www.washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "..."We think by eliminating overtime and by looking at some of the flexibilities we have with the part-time workforce, and potentially working with the unions on some buyouts, we'll easily hit that." ..."
Source: www.federalnewsradio.comSnippet of Article: "...a move to electronic-only donations would seem to put CFC at risk of losing a majority of its donors. The proposal worries executives of some charitable organizations, even as they welcome other sections of the plan...."
Source: washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "...Federal offices in Washington, D.C. will open at 12 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 28, due to inclement weather expected in the region. The Office of Personnel Management is asking federal employees to stay off the roads until 10 a.m. ..."
Source: www.federalnewsradio.comSnippet of Article: "...Federal agencies are girding for mass furloughs and other cutbacks as across-the-board budget reductions loom in barely a month. “Hundreds of thousands” of employees face unpaid..."
Source: www.federaltimes.comSnippet of Article: "...Federal employees are facing a triple threat of their own: from the government hitting its debt ..."
Source: www.washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "...The measure, sponsored by Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., would prevent a 0.5 percent pay raise set in April for federal employees, which is estimated to cost about $11 million a year. No new date for floor action on the vote has been set – but it would not occur until next month at the earliest. ..."
Source: www.nationaljournal.comSnippet of Article: "...GOP ramps up rhetoric ahead of deficit debate..."
Source: baltimoresun.comSnippet of Article: "... An additional eighteen, (18), facilities are now on the chopping block for calendar year 2013. The list of facilities is also attached. It is anticipated that these facilities will be impacted mid-year, (although the Postal Service has not announced an exact time frame yet)...."
Source: www.npmhu.orgSnippet of Article: "...The Defense Department is freezing civilian hiring, laying off temporary workers, considering furloughs for hundreds of thousands of civilian employees, and cutting back on contracts to prepare for the likelihood of severe budget reductions this year...."
Source: www.federaltimes.comSnippet of Article: "...If Congress doesn’t raise the nation’s debt ceiling, which limits the amount Sam can borrow to pay his bills, Obama made it clear that federal employees will be among those who suffer...."
Source: www.washingtonpost.comSnippet of Article: "...Federal employees aspiring to become senior level managers now have a more definitive roadmap to follow. The Office of Personnel Management just released the Federal Supervisory Training Framework. ..."
Source: www.federalnewsradio.comSnippet of Article: "...The three-person board of arbitrators has issued a final and binding award that sets the terms of a four-and-a-half-year collective-bargaining agreement between the National Association of Letter Carriers and the U.S. Postal Service, NALC President Fredric Rolando announced on Jan. 11...."
Source: www.nalc.org
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