The stock market has hit new high levels. TSP stock funds are hitting new highs. Some investors are elated. For those TSP investors getting ready to retire, and who may have sold their stock funds when the market dropped back in February, their emotions may be moving in the opposite direction. Will they now sell the bond funds and move into stocks?
Can using a government computer to set up a website with unauthorized material lead to losing a federal job? This Navy employee found out the answer after he posted material discussing his job duties and his unhappiness with his job and co-workers.
Government ethics with a sense of humor will seem like a misprint to some readers. But one government official has gone to a lot of effort to catalog “ethical lapses” of some federal employees with an eye toward illustrating how one can ruin a career, and perhaps go to prison, by failing to follow the dictates of ethical standards of conduct.
How much income will you receive after you retire? How much can you withdraw from your retirement accounts so that you will not outlive your retirement savings?
Do you have cyberloafers and cyberslackers in your workplace? Most organizations have some but it is probably a small percentage of the workforce. Some supervisors devise a solution that penalizes the whole group and not just the major offenders. Here is a summary of the most common time wasting activities and suggestions for dealing with the problem.
An Air Force employee who was fired for misuse of government resources has won his fight to keep his job.
The topic of national health care is a frequent topic of political speeches and some presidential candidates think they have found a subject that could help them win the White House. But selling the public on a national health care system may not be that easy or may not be something many people want. Many readers have serious reservations about such a system while a smaller number think a national health care system would cost less and provide better health care for some.
An employee of a federal nuclear research facility had an obsession and access to a sophisticated computer network. The result was a stalker who terrified a family.
The TSP stock funds are generally down for the month of June. TSP investors should not focus on the returns of one month when investing for their retirement future and, when looking at a longer term time period, the TSP stock funds have been very good to investors. Here are the results.
The Federal Labor Relations Authority recently ruled against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on an issue regarding employees of the NLRB. In a press release, the NLRB announces it is ready for the second round of litigation from two of the federal government’s agencies specializing in labor relations.
