“Serving those who serve in government”
The National Treasury Employees Union is a notably prominent enterprise, representing scores of thousands of workers employed in federal agencies and departments across the country. And its management has something to say. In fact, the NTEU is notably eager to make a...
You obviously have a lot on your mind if you are a federal employee battling a persistent illness or dealing with an ongoing disabling condition. Some health-linked maladies resolve over time and thankfully do not spawn truly life-upending consequences. Others are...
A noted economics professor and author pays quick homage to the seminal Civil Rights Act of 1964 in a recent article discussing one pointed tangent of employment discrimination. David Neumark notes in a piece penned under the sponsorship of the nonprofit Brookings...
Upsides and downsides. Commentators on arbitration agreements frequently stress both the potential positives and negatives of those contracts for workers who accept their terms and outcomes as conditions of employment. It can’t immediately be stated in every case that...
An online overview of one key aspect relevant to the employment relationship makes a quick preliminary point. “Under federal law,” it notes, “a worker is either an employee or independent contractor.” Is that an important distinction? It certainly can be and, in fact,...
No, it does not. That is the short and incontestable answer to the header query leading off today’s blog post. And it is a response that candidly surprises many people who are employed at workplaces spanning the country under either implied or express “at-will”...
The Trump administration states that the clear and unbiased goal of a recently issued executive order is to stamp out “ideologies that label entire groups of Americans as inherently racist or evil.” A principal with a prominent civil rights group decries that...
Millions of Americans who daily make best-faith efforts to do optimal work and promote the bottom line for their employers are happy to do so. That is, they like their jobs. They enjoy workplace challenges and opportunities, relish the forged union and camaraderie...
Here’s a statistic relevant to American youth that might surprise some readers: According to the U.S. Social Security Administration and as reported in a recent national article, about 25% of individuals aged 20 today “will have a temporary or permanent brush with...
First of all, we’ll deal with that above acronym for those who are unfamiliar with it. Fleshed out, ADA stands for the Americans With Disabilities Act. The ADA is protective federal legislation enacted back in 1990. The thrust of the ADA is direct and simple. The...