“Serving those who serve in government”
The federal workplace should not be high school. Supervisors or managers should not play favorites, offering the best assignments, giving awards or recognition, promoting their friends or providing them with inflated performance ratings.After all, the federal...
From Alaska comes this interesting Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) decision, involving the Superintendent of the Sitka National Historic Park. She was reassigned from her position to a job as an "Alaska Native American Liaison" in Anchorage, which is 500 miles...
Summary judgment is one of the most powerful tools in procedural legal process. The concept may sound rather foreign, but it is straightforward. A court is authorized to grant a "summary judgment" when the party bringing the case fails to alleged a genuine issue of a...
In all types of litigation, there words that have a special meaning and they are called terms of art. This can be very important if your employment is controlled by a contract, or by other special rules, such as those that govern employees of the federal government....
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has had a 26 percent increase in misconduct over the last two year. The finding was reported by the General Accountability Office (GAO), the agency responsible for oversight of much of what goes on in federal agencies....
In the government, there can be many types of scandals. Some, like Watergate, contain multiple incidents of legal violations made at the highest levels. Others should only be called scandal in quotes. The GSA conference overspending "scandal" appears to have been one...
Over the past few years, the media has focused a great deal of attention on the ways in which social media can influence the outcome of family law-related court cases. In particular, spouses seeking to uncover adultery, support claims of unfit parenting and protect...
The multinational petroleum company, BP, and some of its contractors have agreed to pay a $5.4 million settlement in response to a gender bias lawsuit. The sex discrimination claim was filed by a group of women who allege they were denied jobs in the aftermath of the...
With the economy and jobs at a premium these days, it is definitely an employer's market for job seekers. Unemployment remains high in many areas and the jobs that are available are highly competitive, even in the fast food industry. This week a suit was filed by the...
A wrongful termination suit can be controversial and in the case of a woman who alleges she was wrongfully terminated, is now facing a counterclaim on her suit from the daycare where she previously worked.Kiddie Korner Day Care in Texas is filing their counterclaim...