There's a common idiom that you may have heard. It goes, "Whatever floats your boat." It usually is used as a way to affirm that a person should do whatever makes them happy.When it comes to federal employment in Texas and the rest of the country, one thing that has...
Month: December 2015
You wouldn’t think MSPB would have to taste its own medicine, but
Federal agencies are supposed to take seriously the job of protecting workers who strive to make things better by blowing the whistle on suspected wrongdoing. If a government employee in Texas or anywhere else takes the time and effort to reveal some shortcoming in...
Does alleged health fraud case pose risk to any federal workers?
Termination from a job can happen for all sorts of reasons. Some of them may be justified. But such actions have been known to happen for retaliatory purposes or as the result of an effort by higher ups in an agency to try to fend off possible repercussions from some...
New work leave law for wounded vets has its limits
Congress enacted and President Obama signed the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015 this year. The purpose of the measure is meant to ensure that many new federal government workers who have a service-related disability the time off from their jobs in order to...