Military Establishes Beach Head at Law Schools
The Supreme Court says that law schools have to accept military recruiters on campus if they are going to accept federal funding.
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The Supreme Court says that law schools have to accept military recruiters on campus if they are going to accept federal funding.
Nominations for Service to America Medals are open until March 8, 2006.
TSP investors had a mixed month in February with the bond funds having a positive return and finishing ahead of all of the stock funds for the month.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a significant decision that holds a federal employee’s claim of discrimination based on retaliation under Title VII does not have to demonstrate that the agency’s retaliation was in the form of a personnel action.
A federal employee charged with using abusive and obscene language signed a last chance agreement. When he didn’t show up for work, the agency reinstated the removal action and a court finds that he had waived his right of appeal.
Winning a case does not guarantee a result that the winner envisioned. This veteran won his case but didn’t get the job he was seeking.
A federal employee argued he did not understand the last chance settlement agreement and that the agency had acted in bad faith. But, in the absence of any proof, the court dismissed his case and he lost his federal job.
Federal employees overwhelmingly disagree with using the TSP’s G fund to help avoid a debt ceiling problem.
An employee who is frequently absent or late can get an employee fired and will be upheld on review. The Postal Service fared well in two new court decisions, one of which involved an employee who, apparently, had trouble getting to work on time.
This Air Force base fired an engineer for misrepresenting time spent on assigned work and failing to carry out assigned work.