Seven Straight Months of Gains in Your Thrift Savings Plan
Investors in the Thrift Savings Plan have seen their returns reflecting a positive return for a number of months now. September continues the same upward trend.
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Investors in the Thrift Savings Plan have seen their returns reflecting a positive return for a number of months now. September continues the same upward trend.
On October 1, 2009, Pres. Obama issued an executive order prohibiting federal employees from texting while driving. This is the executive order.
A recent case demonstrates that when the federal government gets too involved in personnel decisions affecting contract employees, it could open the door to equal employment opportunity complaints just as if the individual is in fact a government employee.
The annual report from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reveals that power and pay discrepancies still exist between men and women, whites and minorities, and non-disabled and disabled.
A number of readers have been surprised, and at least some are angry or upset, over a premium increase in the federal long term care insurance program for some participants. Here is an explanation of how the increase will work and how much of an increase you may be facing.
A trial court has rebuffed the government’s attempts to set aside a jury verdict in favor of an unsuccessful applicant for an FBI Special Agent position. The FBI revoked its conditional offer of employment to a Type I insulin-dependent diabetic applicant. The applicant invoked the Rehabilitation Act and sued the agency.
As usual, the attorneys that filed class action lawsuits fared much better than those they are representing in this case involving the Department of Veterans Affairs. Attorneys suing the VA wanted 25% of a $20 million fund, or $5 million. The judge decided they would get only 18% or $3.6 million. Represented veterans got from $75 to $1500.
A Physicist/Scientist with the Naval Surface Warfare Center was not able to persuade the appeals court to overturn an indefinite suspension that lasted 370 days after the Navy pulled his security clearance.
A district court has ruled that a small number of unsuccessful applicants for the DOJ Honors Program and Summer Law Intern Program who claim their applications were excluded by agency political appointees during the Bush years for failure to pass a partisan litmus test may maintain a Privacy Act lawsuit against the department.
A fired Architect of the Capitol employee has learned a second time that it is pretty difficult to sue your former bosses for personal damages.