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Article Title: Employee bias complaints down, waits up
Snippet of Article: "...The number of cases awaiting hearings was up 12 percent and has grown by nearly half since fiscal 2007, topping 8,000. Meanwhile, the number of appeals to the commission rose by 14 percent to almost 5,200, and processing time there rose by 30 percent to 378 days. About 4,300 cases are pending there, up by 18 percent from 2010 and up by about a quarter since 2007...."
Article Title: EPA Management Thwarting Organizing Effort At Georgia Laboratory, Says AFGE
Snippet of Article: "...AFGE Council 238 urges the Administration to remind EPA management of their obligations under federal labor law to ensure there is a fair and unbiased election at the Athens laboratory. “The least this Administration could do is work with its labor partners to ensure that the Executive Order establishing a cooperative and productive form of labor-management relations at EPA is followed by management,” concluded Orzehoskie.
“We intend to hold this election and prevail. It is clear that these EPA scientists need someone to protect them so they can continue to ensure all of us have clean air to breathe and safe water to drink. They stand at the front lines of ensuring that human health and the environment are protected,” concluded Kelley...."
Article Title: What the GOP platform means to feds
Snippet of Article: "...The newly released Republican Party platform touts a vision of a reformed, less “bloated” government, but what it mainly means for federal employees is possible layoffs, lower pay and reduced benefits.
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Article Title: GOP platform takes aim at federal workforce
Snippet of Article: "... The plan also calls for a "dramatic restructuring" of the U.S. Postal Service.
"In light of the Postal Service's seriously underfunded pension system" — the agency defaulted on a $5.5 billion payment to pre-fund pension costs last month — "Congress should explore a greater role for private enterprise in appropriate aspects of the mail-processing system." ..."
Article Title: Majority Say Save Government Services: Survey
Snippet of Article: "...In the survey conducted for the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) by Ipsos Public Affairs, 670 (67%) of the 1000 adults polled, agreed with the statement that, "Congress should raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans before cutting funding for public services such as food and drug safety and border security."..."
Article Title: No Pay Raise Until Congress Passes a Budget
Snippet of Article: "...use his authority to give federal employees a 0.5% pay raise in 2013, but only if Congress passes a budget. Locality pay would remain unchanged...."
Article Title: Former ICE acting director to serve almost two years for fraud scheme
Snippet of Article: "...A scheme by several ICE employees that bilked more than $500,000 from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement with fake travel and reimbursement vouchers has landed a former intelligence official at the agency almost two years in federal prison...."
Article Title: New law will let federal employees ease into retirement
Snippet of Article: "...It's been a worry for many years: What happens when older federal workers retire and take decades of institutional knowledge with them? "The last thing any manager or any organization or company wants is for folks that are ready to retire to just walk out the door," said Kenneth J. Zawodny Jr., associate director of retirement services at the federal Office of Personnel Management...."
Article Title: NJ High Court Rules ‘Willful’ OSHA Violation Doesn’t Overcome Worker’s Compensation Preemption
Snippet of Article: "...A willful violation of federal safety standards does not, on its own, overcome the worker's compensation bar against civil suits, the New Jersey Supreme Court ..."
Article Title: Hurricane guidance issued to federal workers, agencies
Snippet of Article: "...Special hiring authorities to deal with emergency situations allow agencies to shortcut the often lengthy standard federal hiring process, to create temporary positions, and to rehire federal retirees without the usual reduction in pay to offset the value of their annuities...."
Article Title: A busy 18 months for OPM
Snippet of Article: "...The agency said it also has shifted to the cloud many of its services, including its public website; core financial, budget and procurement system; and facilities asset management. The USAJOBS website has shifted to a private cloud as well, and a system for submitting IT budget data to the Office of Management and Budget has migrated to a government cloud solution, OPM noted...."
Article Title: Why Did Hackers Hit the Fed Pension Plan?
Snippet of Article: "...Some observers speculate that this so-called sophisticated attack is linked to a much larger cyber-scheme targeting federal employees and agencies. ..."
Article Title: Social Security Benefits & Taxes
Snippet of Article: "...So after years of paying income taxes on your “contributions” you are ready to retire and collect the benefits—only to find out that they may be taxable! It doesn’t seem fair, does it? Well, here’s how..."
Article Title: House passes bill to cut feds' take-home pay by 5%
Snippet of Article: "...The bill would effectively cut federal employees' pay by 5 percent, and leave FERS employees contributing 5.8 percent of each paycheck toward their pensions and CSRS employees contributing 12 percent. The House approved the bill 218-199..."
Article Title: House panel OKs higher federal employee contributions
Snippet of Article: "...Federal employees would contribute an additional 5% of their salary to their defined benefit pension plans under a bill approved Thursday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee...."
Article Title: Lawmakers weigh in on GSA, Secret Service scandals
Snippet of Article: "...The Secret Service and General Services Administration scandals are two very disparate situations -- one revolves around sex, the other around lavish spending. ..."
Article Title: Mo. Senator Wants To Prepare For The Collapse of the Federal Government
Snippet of Article: "...Sen. Chuck Purgason, R-Caulfield, has introduced Senate Bill 861, which calls for the creation of a "Task Force on Government Continuity." The committee would be charged with creating an action plan that could be enacted in the event of a federal government shutdown. ..."
Article Title: USPS plan to set up own health plan faces lawmakers' skepticism
Snippet of Article: "...questioned the cost and effectiveness of a USPS-negotiated plan. "You're making me nervous" said Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.)...."
Article Title: Postal Service closing plans panned by lawmakers
Snippet of Article: "...Postal Service stands to lose billions of dollars in the first year after it closes 200 mail processing facilities and slows the delivery of first-class mail, according to a feasibility study..."
Article Title: Senate OKs bill allowing phased retirements, higher transit subsidy
Snippet of Article: "...The Senate passed a transportation bill Wednesday that would allow federal employees to retire part-time and work part-time at the end of their careers. The bill, S 1813..."
Article Title: Democrat TSA Shutdown | Wasted Union Dues: AFGE Silent on Democrat Attack on Unionized TSA Workers The disgusting AF...
