Current news and events impacting the federal workforce, both current federal employees and federal retirees.
The number of returning veterans with major wounds is likely to be very large, and federal agencies will have to be creative, probably to an unprecedented degree, in coming up with the reasonable accommodations that will be needed. Is there the will in federal agencies to hire them?
The Federal Circuit of Appeals has concluded that the OPM regulation on excepted service positions violates the law. It is “at odds with the statutory protections Congress guaranteed these [30% or more disabled] veterans.”
To make your New Year’s resolutions more successful, break your resolutions into achievable steps, monitor the completion of those steps and celebrate your small successes. Here are suggestions you can use for small resolutions that will help you move toward the larger goal of finding a better job.
FedSmith.com is now posting to Twitter as another means of sharing our news with readers.
What do readers think about a total ban on smoking in federal buildings? There are plenty of strong opinions ranging from simmering resentment about smokers taking extra breaks to concerns about the lack of “smokers’ rights.” Here are the survey results.
A federal employee argued that her resignation was involuntary and therefore an adverse action. The case went back to court a second time after the employee, who had been working on a movie set with her husband while supposedly caring for him in his dying days, appealed the denial from MSPB.
There was apparently a lively discussion last week at OPM which hosted a meeting between agency labor relations representatives and the FLRA transition team. The author highlights the gist of the meeting and provides bios of transition team members.
If you are looking for good news with regard to your stock funds, try this: Your funds did not go down as much this past month as they did in October. If that doesn’t give you a thrill, perhaps the bottom of the market has been reached.
If you are a current federal employee trying to get promoted, or on the outside of Uncle Sam’s civilian army and trying to land your first federal job, you need to make your resume stand out. Here are tips on how to do that.
“Back to the Future” was a great movie–or series of movies. Still, no one likes to see their retirement investments sinking back to levels of six years ago. That is what has happened in the current bear market. Here are charts showing the results through the recent sell-off–and some hope for the future.
