“Serving those who serve in government”
It’s like expressing dire concerns “with the fox that’s guarding the henhouse.” So says a worker with the Dallas district office of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Readers of this national employment law blog forum are well attuned to the workings...
Acclaimed American author Joseph Heller is synonymous with the widely known phrase “Catch-22.” Legions of people are not only familiar with its meaning, but see its applications play out in very personal terms in their lives. Take the federal employment realm, for...
The Government Accountability Project. The National Federation of Federal Employees. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics. The Project of Government Oversight. Whistleblowers of America. What does a list of entities like that – broad in itself, but supplemented...
Toni Van Pelt makes a number of instructive – indeed, compelling – points in a recent article she wrote concerning American women and their on-the-job pay. That shouldn’t be surprising. Van Pelt’s studied reflections come courtesy of her long tenure as a working woman...
Project Include is an organization focused on America’s vast and ever-growing high-tech employment realm. The enterprise is a nonprofit advocacy group, with its mission statement underscoring its efforts “to accelerate diversity and inclusion solutions in the tech...
The Merit Systems Protection Board is a federal agency with impressive scope and powers. In a nutshell, notes an authoritative legal source on employment law and workers’ rights, the MSPB is tasked with “protecting the integrity of the federal merit systems and the...
Not every working individual in the United States is routinely happy with what goes on at work, of course. Some employees are harassed by managers or coworkers. Others are discriminated against because of a core attribute such as race, gender, age, national origin or...
Systemic racism. That it is a worker-authored accusation viewed with dread by any American business enterprise. Especially one that stands as a colossus among companies in terms of size and clout. Tech giant Amazon is spotlighted in today’s blog post, and in a flatly...
Experience counts. That is an adage with applicability across a broad spectrum of life, including at the workplace. Especially at the workplace. Do you want a freshly minted graduate from flight school at the helm of a jumbo airliner you’re on, or a seasoned veteran...
If you are a worker with a few years of experience in the federal sphere, you’ve likely seen differentiated and even inconsistent treatment doled out to employees who are targeted in internal investigations. Some workers sail through those probes without a hitch. They...