“Serving those who serve in government”
The U.S. Postal Service counts more than half a million career employees. Accordingly, even small differences between the rates of employee concerns can have large real-world impact. Data collection errors that lead to numbers off by just one percent of the whole...
Long COVID is a newer medical condition that manifests differently among patients, so applications for various disability-based benefit programs based on long COVID may take more time to process or receive greater scrutiny. For federal employees with this illness,...
In today’s polarized political environment, it’s rare that we hear about bipartisan efforts. Yet, members from both parties recently came together in the House of Representatives to pass a bill that could change how federal agencies hire and promote their employees....
Why should the firing of a superintendent in Sarasota, Florida, bother federal employees everywhere? What does it have to do with the Schedule F classification created by President Trump, then rescinded by President Biden? An editorial in Federal News Network recently...
There is no mandatory retirement age for federal employees, but that wasn’t always the case. In fact, government agencies could force employees to retire as recently as the mid-1980s. Much has changed over the intervening decades, including the makeup of the federal...
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) recently released its overdue report on sexual harassment in the federal workplace. The report was underway in 2017 but was delayed when the MSPB’s board lost its quorum that January. Based largely on the 2016 Merit Principles...
According to the people at ClearanceJobs, roughly 4.2 million federal employees have some level of access to classified information. Presumably, this is because they need the access to do their jobs, and to get that access, they need some form of security clearance....
It’s never fun to go through the work of applying for a job or promotion only to learn you didn’t get the job. It’s even less fun to learn that the person who did get the job was related to someone else in the agency. But nepotism isn’t just demoralizing. It’s also...
Several laws protect federal employees from various forms of discrimination. When employees believe they’ve suffered because of discrimination, these laws allow them to hold their agencies accountable. But then, all too often, managers or others within the agencies...
Many people know that the federal government is the nation’s largest employer. However, the number of federal employees pales in comparison to another group – federal contractors. In 2020, the Brookings Institute explored the true size of the federal government. It...