Workforce Rights/Governance
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The federal government is holding steady on its diversity hiring, but agencies still need to do a better job for specific demographics.
March 21, 2012 -
Two small agencies with large responsibilities toward the federal workforce say they\'ve trimmed all the fat from their budgets and will need more resources to keep up with increasing caseloads. Merit Systems Protection Board Chairman Susan Tsui Grundmann told a Senate subcommittee she worries about impending staff retirements as well. The Office of Special Counsel is also feeling pressure to do more with less.
March 21, 2012 -
The workload of the Merit Systems Protection Boards is only growing, but its workforce is headed in the opposite direction.
March 20, 2012 -
FLEO President Jon Adler and Tony Vergnetti, president of Federal Employee Defense Services, will talk about legislation affecting federal law enforcement officers. March 9, 2012
March 09, 2012 -
The White House announced the launch of Ethics.gov, an online portal housing ethics-related data, including White House visitor logs, election filings and lobbying disclosures. The creation of a single, centralized database for lobbying and ethics information was a 2008 campaign promise by then-candidate Obama and follows a string of data-storing sites, such as Data.gov and USASpending.gov.
March 08, 2012 -
Debra Roth, a partner at Shaw, Bransford and Roth, said the Hatch Act Modernization of 2012 would widen the array of penalties for violating the law that governs political activities by government workers.
March 08, 2012 -
A group of lawmakers has proposed an update to the law governing federal employees' political activity that would exempt some state and local employees and allow for a range of penalties other than automatic suspension for minor violations.
March 07, 2012 -
The Merit Systems Protection Board has come up with new strategic plan for the next four years which updates the agency\'s mission and vision statements and includes new strategic goals.
March 07, 2012 -
In a letter to Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Jeff Zients, the two lawmakers say the Food and Drug Administration lawsuit raises broader questions about how other agencies monitor employee use of personal email. The House and Senate members want OMB to conduct a governmentwide analysis of these policies.
March 06, 2012 -
Members of the Federal Managers Association join host Bill Bransford to talk about the group\'s annual convention. February 24, 2012
February 24, 2012 -
Host Debra Roth leads a roundtable discussion of how to get a job in the federal government. February 10, 2012
February 10, 2012 -
John Palguta of the Partnership for Public Service, Jessie Klement of the Federal Managers Association, Beth Moten of the American Federation of Government Employees will talk about the proposed federal pay freeze and other issues affecting federal employees. January 20, 2011
January 21, 2012 -
Bill Bransford, a partner at Shaw, Bransford and Roth, offers some insight to federal employees on upcoming whistleblower legislation and the possible ramifications of on-the-job political activities.
January 12, 2012 -
The company will pay $155,000 to settle claims that one of its employees harassed another with daily derogatory sex-based comments. DynCorp denies any wrongdoing and says the alleged harasser is no longer an employee.
January 09, 2012 -
Craig Floyd, chairman and CEO of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, joins host Debra Roth, to talk about a new report on officeListen on Friday to hear about why there was a substantial increase in officer fatalities last year. Januaary 6, 2012
January 06, 2012