“Serving those who serve in government”
Our country has been through significant stress and change in the recent past – and we have emerged more divided than ever, it seems. From the pandemic to civic unrest and violence, Americans are reeling. Add to that the controversial, dangerous explosion in heated...
Today we continue our post about President Joe Biden’s September 2021 Executive Order 14043 that mandates federal employees (and contractors) to become fully vaccinated against the novel coronavirus by Nov. 22, 2021. As we explained in part 1, some exceptions to the...
To comply with President Joe Biden’s vaccination mandate, federal employees need to sear four dates into their memories: Oct. 11, Oct. 18, Nov. 8 and Nov. 22, 2021. On Nov. 22, all federal employees (and federal contractors) must be fully vaccinated against the novel...
Let’s talk work-related injuries and illnesses for a moment as an intro to today’s blog. And let us focus specifically upon the prolonged and unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic and its ravaging effects on broad-based work realities. The blowback from the virus has been...
Americans are unquestionably united on some matters and divided on others. Unanimity seems easily clinched regarding some issues and flatly beyond reach on others. That has always been so, going back to the very dawn of the United States. Divergence of opinion on just...
Millions of federal employees spanning the country take immense pride in the work they do. They believe it is important, and they apply specialized education and training toward the accomplishment of key national goals and objectives. Working in the federal sphere can...
A candid workplace-linked admission compels acknowledgement that COVID-19 dislocations and related life disruptions over the past year-plus have affected male and female employees in different ways. Not all of them, of course. Legions of members from both sexes have...
“Jim” is a fellow employee at your workplace. You can see that Jim is unhappy and harboring material on-the-job stress. You don’t know exactly why that should be the case. You know Jim as a productive and willing worker, but you can see that there is some manifest and...
Do you have a material on-the-job problem at your federal workplace? Candidly, who doesn’t? No work venue is perfect. Federal employees spanning the country routinely deal with an array of challenges and obstacles. For most people, varied employment stress and...
Here’s a little takeaway regarding workplace pay in the United States that is both a bit ironic and perplexing. To wit: Although a PEW Research Center survey stresses that legions of Americans “see equal pay as central to gender equality,” that salutary on-the-job...