DOD POSTS ADDITIONAL NSPS INFORMATION...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on October 30, 2006 | Comments Off
The Department of Defense continues to implement the National Security Personnel System. NSPS is a performance-based human capital system that will eventually incorporate almost 700,000 DoD civilian employees’ pay and classification, performance management, hiring, workforce shaping, disciplinary...
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Revival of Social Security Privatization...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on October 26, 2006 | Comments Off
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ — The National Social Security Council of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) today warned that the Bush administration is reviving its highly unpopular plan to dismantle the current Social Security system in favor of establishing private retirement...
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Three judges set to hear Defense personn...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on October 26, 2006 | Comments Off
By Karen Rutzick Source: GovExec.com A panel of three new judges was picked Wednesday to decide what could be the final chapter in the legal battle between the government and federal employee unions over new labor relations rules in the Defense Department. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District...
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Pentagon eyes civilians for work oversea...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on October 19, 2006 | Comments Off
The Defense Department may seek legislation to make it easier to deploy civilians overseas, a Pentagon official said Wednesday. The department wants to review laws that make it difficult to reclassify job descriptions of employees who may be useful abroad, David Chu, the Pentagon’s undersecretary...
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Pentagon official optimistic about overt...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on October 3, 2006 | Comments Off
By Karen Rutzick Source: GovExec.com   The Pentagon’s top personnel official said Tuesday that his department’s battle to secure new collective bargaining rules is far from over, despite a final court ruling overturning the Homeland Security Department’s parallel system. David Chu,...
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Congress withholds millions from DHS per...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on October 2, 2006 | Comments Off
By Karen Rutzick Source: GovExec.com Lawmakers last week cut millions of dollars in requested funding for the Homeland Security Department’s new personnel system. After House-Senate negotiations, the two bodies settled on $25 million for the system in fiscal 2007. That figure, which was included...
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BILL WOULD EXTEND FEDERAL BENEFITS TO SA...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on October 2, 2006 | Comments Off
Source: fednews-online Same sex partners of federal employees could receive federal benefits, if a bipartisan bill introduced last week becomes law. Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., and Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., have crafted the Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act, which would extend to federal...
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