Protecting Sean Penn (With Federal Government Computers)
Some federal employees may be about to run into a firestorm. How is government equipment being used to influence public opinion on issues through the use of Wikipedia?
Current Events
Current news and events impacting the federal workforce, both current federal employees and federal retirees.
Who Will Get the Benefit of Your Retirement Annuity?
Who will receive your federal pension payments after your death? While an ideal relationship may be a couple getting married and living together for many years, reality can be different. With complex relationships, determining the disposition of a federal pension payment may provide employment for a number of people. Here is one of these cases.
Government Phones and Personal Calls
An employee who spent about 13 minutes an hour on the phone (623 calls in one 47 hour period) found himself reprimanded, suspended and then fired. He claimed the agency lied and that he should not be fired because he had been a federal employee for a long time.
Is the National Labor Relations Board a Neutral Agency? Not According to Its Union President!
“It’s no surprise that adamant union advocates would demand that NLRB’s staff be permitted union representation. Likewise it should be no surprise that a company which deals with NLRB would doubt its ability to get a fair shake listening to the NLRBU’s rhetoric.”
Should You Get a Survivor Annuity or Purchase Life Insurance?
Many contemplating retirement wonder if they should purchase a survivor annuity or purchase life insurance. Here are several considerations you should contemplate when making this decision.
Got $102,300?
The Social Security earning ceiling is going up by $4,800 over this years limit. If you make more than the ceiling, you will get a raise of 6.2%.
Privacy Among Federal Employees: Who Has More Rights?
What happens to information in agency case files when an agency employee with access to those files pursues his own complaint? Can the employee in the human resources or EEO office use those files to his own advantage? In a complex case, the MSPB upholds a 30-day suspension of a federal employee who had access to private information and who also had his own axe to grind.
Stock Market Volatility and Your Retirement Funds: How Did TSP Investors React Last Week?
A rational person could read recent financial headlines and conclude that the end of wealth accumulation was at hand. A credit crunch, falling housing prices, falling stock prices and general panic seemed to be in the air. How did TSP investors react? Did they bail out of their TSP stock funds? Here are the statistics that reflect the actions of your fellow investors.
Politically Active, Politically Aware, Dissatisfied with Political Process
Readers are politically active and politically aware and fairly evenly divided between the major parties. But dissatisfaction with the tone and the length of the campaigns comes through loud and clear.
Kicked out of SES, Resigned As a GS-15, Lost in Court
A former SES employee who was reassigned to a GS-15 job resigned and then argued he was constructively removed because of sex discrimination and intolerable working conditions. He went to federal court to argue his case but did not make a convincing case.
