AFGE APPLAUDS BILL TO ESTABLISH TAX EQUI...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on July 31, 2006 | Comments Off
WASHINGTON-The American Federation of Government Employees today applauded the introduction of a bill to establish tax equity for federal employees deployed in combat zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Recently Reps. Frank Wolf (R-VA), Tom Davis (R-VA), and Joe Schwarz (R-MI) introduced the Federal...
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Senate panel votes to give civilians hig...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on July 20, 2006 | Comments Off
Source: Govexec.com By Karen Rutzick and Jenny Mandel In a break with tradition, the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a higher 2007 pay raise for civilian federal employees than for military service members. On the same day committee members voted for a 2.7 percent civilian pay hike...
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Second phase of civilian personnel syste...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on July 19, 2006 | Comments Off
by Donna Miles American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON - The Defense Department announced plans to transfer more than 66,000 additional DoD civilian employees into the new National Security Personnel System beginning in October. The plan, delivered to Congress earlier this week, ushers in the second...
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Bill would streamline employee grievance...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on July 18, 2006 | Comments Off
By MOLLIE ZIEGLER A federal employee looking to air a workplace grievance has no shortage of options for where to take his case. Depending on the nature of the grievance, it could be the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or perhaps the Merit Systems Protection Board. It could be the Office of...
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Lawyers, Unions, Pay and Federal Employe...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on July 13, 2006 | Comments Off
The National Security Personnel System (NSPS) has been getting considerable press recently–most of it proclaiming the program is going down in flames because of successful legal challenges brought into federal court by federal employee unions. But with the hype surrounding the losses in court,...
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DOD expands second phase of NSPS...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on July 13, 2006 | Comments Off
Source: FCW.com BY Wade-Hahn Chan The Defense Department’s second phase of its pay-for-performance system will involve more employees than DOD originally planned to include. The agency announced yesterday that Spiral 1.2, the second phase of the National Security Personnel System (NSPS), will go into...
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IS 40 PERCENT OFFICIAL TIME ENOUGH FOR U...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on July 5, 2006 | Comments Off
Source: Fednews-online The Federal Service Impasses Panel recently ruled that a union president can have 50 percent of his official time to perform his representational duties. In Department of Veterans Affairs, Veteran Health Administration, Health Revenue Center, Topeka, Kansas and Local 906, American...
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