On March 20, the House of Representatives decided to continue the so-called "Holman rule" through the end of the current Congress. The rule gives Congress the power to target individual federal workers for pay cuts or to gut specific agency programs through lack of funding.
House reinstates rule allowing it to cut federal workers' pay
Is the State Department purging employees for political reasons?
"I think a cleaning is in order here," former Dick Cheney advisor David Wurmser allegedly wrote in a recent email chain. The chain, which was apparently between current White House and State Department political appointees and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, included messages from Wurmser.
Retaliation Against Federal Employees
After Reporting Harassment And Discrimination, Federal Employees Often Experience Retaliation
8 years in, women submariners' retention rate about equal to men
When the Navy began integrating submarines eight years ago, there was push-back. Some submariners, veterans and submariners' wives thought the living quarters were just too tight and that lack of privacy and the potential for romantic entanglements would be disruptive.
Navy, Marine Corps vets with mental illnesses sue over discharges
"It is a national disgrace," says the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against the Navy. The lawsuit accuses the service of giving less-than-honorable discharges to Navy and Marine Corps veterans due to minor infractions engendered by service-related disabilities. The plaintiffs have traumatic brain injuries, PTSD and other mental illnesses brought on by service trauma. The less-than-honorable discharges strip them of the very VA benefits they need to recover from those conditions.
