“Serving those who serve in government”
Federal employees don’t always earn the same salary as their peers in the private sector, but they enjoy some excellent benefits. These include the sort of pension plans that are becoming vanishingly rare outside of government jobs. However, as the current...
Expectations about the technological abilities of federal (and all other) employees may have changed and evolved because of the COVID-19 pandemic. During quarantine, many people had to work from home and use technology from a remote location. Naturally, this may have...
Around watercoolers and in breakrooms across the country, passionate debate about abortion has exploded because of a recently leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that would overrule Roe v. Wade if decided as written. Federal government workplaces are not...
It’s no surprise that big tech sometimes oversteps its bounds. As megalithic tech companies explore every new way to mine data and make profits, they sometimes turn a blind eye to the public good. And when they do, sometimes people stand up to call them out. And...
The current administration has stressed the need for greater diversity and equity. As a result, federal agencies announced more than 300 actions they will take to pursue those goals. Many of these actions focus on improving equity among the nation’s most vulnerable...
Our nation is as politically divided as it has been in many years. Recent events have done little to remedy this fact. Instead, the astonishing leak of a Supreme Court draft ruling has sent waves of electricity running through workplaces everywhere. Emotionally and...
In part 1 of this post, we told readers about the April 13 Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) opinion in Smith v. Department of the Army. The board found in favor of a whistleblower who had publicized that military morticians had sent her late husband’s cremated...
As a federal employee, if you have an issue to resolve with your agency, you might ask for your union representative’s support. You have this right thanks to Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). And thanks to this right, your union rep can accompany...
We recently discussed the end of the five-year hiatus of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) with U.S. Senate approval of two board members President Biden had nominated. Two members present of the normally three-person board are enough to constitute a quorum...
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently released some good news. April saw the average processing time for retirement applications drop by two days. Unfortunately, that still means the office was taking a week longer, on average, to process applications than...