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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%.
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%.
A dispute between the National Labor Relations Board Union and the agency is heating up as the union begins picketing and calling for the resignation of the agency’s General Counsel. The NLRB responds with its own press release.
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.
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.
Can you consider prior discipline in the selection process?
A federal employee can sometimes challenge a disciplinary or adverse action through arbitration instead of going to MSPB. That happened in this case and the employee was apparently disappointed when the arbitrator upheld his removal for inappropriate conduct. The employee then went to court to try and get the arbitration decision tossed out but the court found that a table of penalties is a guide and not binding on the agency and he remains fired.
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.
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.
Poor supervision drives good employees away. What problems do they create and how do good intentions go wrong? Here are some examples and problems that can be avoided.
Most people have to write a resume at one time or another. How you present yourself on paper can make the difference between getting a new job or promotion and not being seriously considered. Here are some of the most common mistakes to avoid in writing your resume.