Bush declares pocket veto of defense aut...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 28, 2007 | Comments Off
By Ben Feller, Associated Press CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) — President Bush on Friday used a “pocket veto” to reject a sweeping defense bill because he dislikes a provision that would expose the Iraqi government to expensive lawsuits seeking damages from the Saddam Hussein era. In a statement,...
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President signs $516 billion omnibus spe...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 27, 2007 | Comments Off
Source; Govexec.com By Alyssa Rosenberg President Bush signed the $516 billion omnibus spending bill covering 11 of 12 fiscal 2008 spending bills on Wednesday, setting a 3.5 percent average civilian employee pay increase, boosting retirement benefits for Customs and Border Protection officers and enhancing...
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President signs $516 billion omnibus spe...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 27, 2007 | Comments Off
Source: GovExec.com By Alyssa Rosenberg President Bush signed the $516 billion omnibus spending bill covering 11 of 12 fiscal 2008 spending bills on Wednesday, setting a 3.5 percent average civilian employee pay increase, boosting retirement benefits for Customs and Border Protection officers and enhancing...
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Backlog of Social Security disability cl...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 19, 2007 | Comments Off
By Elizabeth Newell Source: GovExec.com While Congress approved additional funding to help the Social Security Administration address a growing backlog of disability claims amid budget battles, experts say other steps are needed. SSA’s Office of Disability Adjudication and Review is struggling...
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AFGE Kicks Off Anti-Furlough Campaign...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 18, 2007 | Comments Off
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is urging members to send letters to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asking him to forgo plans to furlough 100,000 military civilian employees in February if Congress doesn’t approve the funding the administration wants. The labor union, which...
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AFGE APPLAUDS CONGRESS FOR CONTRACTING O...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 11, 2007 | Comments Off
  Defense Authorization Bill provides new protections for federal employees (Washington)—“AFGE thanks the conferees to the FY08 Defense Authorization Bill for including several bipartisan reforms long sought by this unions’ activists,” declared AFGE National President John Gage. “Moreover,...
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Compromise On Pentagon Pay System, Union...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 10, 2007 | Comments Off
By Stephen Barr It’s a compromise aimed at ending four years of controversy. House-Senate negotiators unveiled legislation Friday that would restore collective bargaining rights to unions at the Defense Department, permit the Pentagon to go forward with new pay rules and perhaps ease the angst...
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Conferees move to scale back Pentagon pe...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 7, 2007 | Comments Off
By Brittany R. Ballenstedt bballenstedt@govexec.com House and Senate conferees on Thursday passed authorizing legislation that would restore the collective bargaining and appeal rights of employees under the Defense Department’s new personnel system. The final version of the fiscal 2008 Defense...
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Furlough threat hangs above Defense empl...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 5, 2007 | Comments Off
By Megan Scully CongressDaily Source: GovExec.com  It won’t feel much like Christmas for more than 100,000 Defense Department civilian employees who might get furlough notices in their stockings this year. The threatened layoffs are part of the Pentagon’s widespread public campaign to prevent...
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Commentary: Regulations strip DHS employ...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 3, 2007 | Comments Off
By JOHN P. MAHONEY and PETER J. JEFFREY Recently, the Merit Systems Protection Board quietly adopted interim regulations governing disciplinary appeals by Homeland Security Department employees. This is the latest move by the Bush administration to strip DHS employees of traditional job protections. Following...
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