Pentagon postpones training on personnel...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 29, 2005 | Comments Off
By Karen Rutzick Personnel reform at the Defense Department hit another bump last week when officials halted training on the new pay-for-performance system to allow more time to evaluate it and make changes. In a Dec. 23 letter, a National Security Personnel System official told program managers to...
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Bush approves 3.1 percent pay raise...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 22, 2005 | Comments Off
By Karen Rutzick Source: GovExec.com December 22, 2005 President Bush issued an executive order Thursday evening formally granting white-collar federal employees a 3.1 percent average pay raise in 2006. The pay increase, which goes into effect in the first pay period of the new year, consists of a 2.1...
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COURT SETS CAP FOR MAXHR BRIEFS...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 22, 2005 | Comments Off
Source: Fednews-online December 22, 2005 After months of uncertainty, the fate of the Department of Homeland Security’s MaxHR personnel system may soon be known. Earlier this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia set a Feb. 27 deadline for filing appeals in the ongoing case. On...
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Congress Clamps a Lid on Outsourcing of ...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 20, 2005 | Comments Off
Source: The Washington Post By Stephen Barr Congress, in an effort to protect federal jobs, has placed restrictions on the Bush administration’s program that uses cost-comparison studies to determine whether “commercial” activities performed by the government should be turned over to...
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DOD, UNIONS MEET TO DISCUSS NSPS...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 20, 2005 | Comments Off
Source: Fednews-online.com Representatives from the Department of Defense and a coalition of 36 unions have wrapped up a series of meetings in which they discussed the National Security Personnel System. The two sides met in early December and again last week to discuss seven recently-released NSPS Implementing...
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Talks on Defense personnel system break ...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 14, 2005 | Comments Off
By Karen Rutzick Source: GovExec.com A coalition of 36 Defense Department unions boycotted scheduled discussions over the Pentagon’s new personnel system this week, citing insufficient time to prepare. The no-show widened the rift between Pentagon officials and unions over the National Security...
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A message from SSA Council 220 President...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 14, 2005 | Comments Off
AFGE Activists:   The Conference Committee for Labor, DHHS, Education and related Agencies voted on a conference committee report late Monday night.  The vote was on party lines.  The conference committee voted to cut $204 million from SSA administrative budget in FY 2006.  Combined with the President’s...
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AFGE Local 896 unanimously voted to merg...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 14, 2005 | Comments Off
  Local 896 is located at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. They have over 150 members with a bargaining unit of 500 civil service, wage grade, Naval District Washington, commissary and non-appropriated funded employees. There is also a large group of unorganized GS employees located at the...
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DOD HEADED BACK TO COURT...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 7, 2005 | Comments Off
Source: FedNews Online The Department of Defense will soon be defending the National Security Personnel System on a new front. The Federal Education Association announced Tuesday it is suing DoD over the inclusion of approximately 8,000 teachers and educational support personnel who teach in DoD-operated...
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