Forced Retirement – or Removal?
An IRS employee failed with the MSPB, and now the court, to overturn her retirement as coerced.
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An IRS employee failed with the MSPB, and now the court, to overturn her retirement as coerced.
The author says that while the government is making progress, it needs to address the fundamental problems that are preventing it from fully utilizing modern technology. He discusses some of the barriers in place from keeping the government from moving into the 21st century.
The big news for federal employees in the President’s recently released budget proposal was that it called for a 1.6% pay raise for the federal workforce, however, the author notes that there is a lesser known albeit important part of the budget that also affects federal workers.
In its annual report, the MSPB cites record-setting case processing actions and decisions. Publicity for the quasi-judicial agency has not all been favorable though.
The author says that the disciplinary process used by human resources offices in government hasn’t changed over the last 35 years and that it also doesn’t work.
Acting OPM director Beth Cobert has issued a memo urging agency leaders to be mindful of health risks involved with sending federal employees to areas impacted by the Zika virus.
A former Homeland Security personnel chief who resigned before the agency could revoke her clearance for making false statements to investigators landed a job with a sensitive DoD agency. When DHS alerted the new agency to the problems she sued both agencies under the Privacy Act.
The author notes that the numbers of young federal employees are dropping while the overall federal workforce is aging.
The Office of Personnel Management saw yet another surge in the number of new retirement applications come in during February, pushing the outstanding backlog higher. OPM is aware of the problem and wants more funding to hire more people to fix it. Will this approach work?
A bill to require OPM to provide yearly data to Congress on union activity by federal employees is under consideration in the House.