Article Title: Can Obama Order Federal Furloughs?
Snippet of Article: "...15 days without pay to turn that money back to taxpayers' use, because they're getting laid off, they're getting cut back, there are no jobs out there," Daley said earlier this month...."
Article Title: Obama labor relations proposal draws praise
Snippet of Article: "...Dougan said he thought including two more federal employee unions on the council would be productive, because they would broaden the cross-section of front-line employees represented...."
Article Title: New USPTO head faces rocky seas ahead
Snippet of Article: "...Only the recent passage of H.R. 3114 -- emergency legislation approved by Congress before they left town for August recess, and signed by President Obama -- gave the patent side of PTO temporary authority to borrow as much as $70 million from the trademark side. That action staved off the prospects of layoffs. ..."
Article Title: Obama Follows Clinton's Lead On Creating Labor Council
Snippet of Article: "...create agency-level forums charged with identifying and correcting federal workplace problems, provide for the involvement of employees and union representatives in decisions before those decisions are final, and develop an evaluation process to document "progress and improvements in employee satisfaction and organizational performance."..."
Article Title: 2008 Federal Employee Salary Search
Snippet of Article: "...Enter a name, or select an agency, job title or location to begin your search. Not all fields need to be filled out. The results will show the adjusted base salary and any merit award from federal fiscal year 2008. On the results page, you may click on a column heading to sort the results.
Employees involved in security work, the FBI, CIA, Defense Department, nuclear materials, IRS, and jobs essential to national security are excluded...."
Article Title: Your Social Security retirement or disability benefits may be reduced
Snippet of Article: "...The Windfall Elimination Provision primarily affects you if you earned a pension in any job where you did not pay Social Security taxes and you also worked in other jobs long enough to qualify for a Social Security retirement or disability benefit. For example..."
Article Title: CAUSEY: Retirees won't get COLAs next year
Snippet of Article: "...COLA!
Monthly payments to the millions under Social Security, federal civil service or military retirement plans will be the same next year as they are right now. However...."
Article Title: Protect America, Stop Obama's Defense Cuts
Snippet of Article: "...protect America by:
* restoring missile defense funding,
* giving our troops the equipment they need to complete their missions, and,
* not including war funding, maintain a minimum defense budget of 4% of GDP...."
Article Title: Federal Employees give career advice
Snippet of Article: "...summarized what Federal employees perceive to be important career accelerators in the accompanying table. These accelerators provide practical strategies for employees to explore in terms of how to advance their careers, as well as identifying roles supervisors can play in helping them...."
Article Title: Former AMCOM Employee Claims He Paid the Price for Exposing Fake Degrees
Snippet of Article: "...Maxey filed a grievance against AMCOM and was represented by the American Federation of Government Employees Union... stated in the grievance that "Major General Pillsbury has a problem for his AMCOM representative to the U.S. Ambassador, the Office of Military Cooperation Commander, and the Egyptian government is an employee... with known bogus credentials." Pillsbury denied the grievance and his decision was final....."
Article Title: Stopping Saturday mail delivery could mean layoffs for USPS
Snippet of Article: "...layoffs are a possibility, a top USPS official acknowledged to House lawmakers on Thursday.
"I can't say or guarantee that there wouldn't be layoffs," said Jordan Small, USPS acting vice president..."
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Article Title: 2010 Retiree COLA: 0% through June
Snippet of Article: "...There was again no projected accumulation toward the 2010 retiree COLA following the BLS release of the June 2009 CPI on July 15...."
Article Title: FBI Support Services Technician Position Hiring
Snippet of Article: "...The FBI Support Services Technician position is a great place to start with the FBI. ..."
Fortune's Allan Sloan takes a look at the troubled retirement program, why it's more important now than ever - and how lawmakers can repair it.
Article Title: The next great bailout: Social Security
Snippet from Article: "...According to the Tax Policy Institute, five out of six U.S. workers pay more in Social Security tax (including the employer's portion) than in federal income tax -- something that makes it especially important (and only fair) to preserve the program for lower earners, who get old-age benefits of up to 90% of their covered wages, while I get only 28%...."
A botnet composed of about 50,000 infected computers has been waging a war against U.S. government Web sites and causing headaches for businesses in the U.S. and South Korea.
The Democratic Plan to Stop Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in 2024 Snippet of Article: "Democrats and the Biden campaign, after months...
