“Serving those who serve in government”
When most federal employees across the country are injured or sickened on the job, their exclusive remedy is to file for federal workers’ compensation benefits. This is the only way for them to seek coverage for financial losses from work-related physical or mental...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently argued that five Biden appointees were serving illegally as “acting” officials. As the Government Executive noted, this marks a point of disagreement between the GAO and the Department of Justice (DOJ), which argued...
Federal employees enter their chosen profession for any number of reasons, but likely do so with the intent to help make our country a better place. This makes it even more frustrating when these same workers notice unethical or illegal actions within the workplace....
The Biden administration recently released its roadmap for greater scientific integrity in government agencies. The response to the roadmap, however, has been mixed. Some appreciate the administration’s efforts to ensure greater scientific integrity. Others say the...
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 What does it have to do with the Schedule F classification created by President Trump, then rescinded by President Biden?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...