Millions of federal employees spanning the country take immense pride in the work they do. They believe it is important, and they apply specialized education and training toward the accomplishment of key national goals and objectives. Working in the federal sphere can...
A candid workplace-linked admission compels acknowledgement that COVID-19 dislocations and related life disruptions over the past year-plus have affected male and female employees in different ways. Not all of them, of course. Legions of members from both sexes have...
“Jim” is a fellow employee at your workplace. You can see that Jim is unhappy and harboring material on-the-job stress. You don’t know exactly why that should be the case. You know Jim as a productive and willing worker, but you can see that there is some manifest and...
Do you have a material on-the-job problem at your federal workplace? Candidly, who doesn’t? No work venue is perfect. Federal employees spanning the country routinely deal with an array of challenges and obstacles. For most people, varied employment stress and...
Here’s a little takeaway regarding workplace pay in the United States that is both a bit ironic and perplexing. To wit: Although a PEW Research Center survey stresses that legions of Americans “see equal pay as central to gender equality,” that salutary on-the-job...
If there were do-overs enabling business principals to peel back time, the top-tier management team at commercial titan Amazon would undoubtedly avail itself of one. In fact, it might just favor erasing May from the 2021 calendar altogether. Candidly, the first month...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plays a key and manifestly protective role in the labor sphere. As a proven source on labor law notes, the EEOC “oversees equal employment in the federal workplace.” The term “equal employment” cannot be quickly or simply...
It’s like expressing dire concerns “with the fox that’s guarding the henhouse.” So says a worker with the Dallas district office of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Readers of this national employment law blog forum are well attuned to the workings...
Acclaimed American author Joseph Heller is synonymous with the widely known phrase “Catch-22.” Legions of people are not only familiar with its meaning, but see its applications play out in very personal terms in their lives. Take the federal employment realm, for...
The Government Accountability Project. The National Federation of Federal Employees. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics. The Project of Government Oversight. Whistleblowers of America. What does a list of entities like that – broad in itself, but supplemented...
