Hubbard Radio Washington DC, LLC. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.
The Senate Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee differed from the president's budget proposal and suggested a pay raise for civilian employees in 2019.
Causey says President Donald Trump is keeping his promises to "drain the swamp" with a crackdown on federal unions, and aims to make the federal retirement plan more costly for workers and less valuable for retirees.
In today's Federal Newscast, a whistleblower and the Office of Special Counsel said inspectors with the Federal Aviation Administration cleared planes for take off even though they did not have all of the needed safety information.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to engage in mid-term negotiations with AFGE over official time.
Twenty-one House Republicans said they're concerned the president's recent federal workforce executive orders undermine existing labor law and may jeopardize longstanding and productive relationships with agency management.
The executive order directs agencies to renegotiate union contracts and suggests that agencies set more concrete time limits for these discussions.
The National Treasury Employees Union is also suing the president and Office of Personnel Management Director Jeff Pon over recent executive orders.
Politicians who want to reduce the cost of the federal retirement and labor-management programs say they are doing it for the most noble reasons.
The American Federation of Government Employees has sued the president, the Office of Personnel Management and OPM Director Jeff Pon over the administration's executive order on official time.
Are you worried about the pay-more-get-less design changes Congress and the White House are considering for your Federal Employees Retirement System and Civil Service Retirement System plans?
In the news business the best way to bury a story is to release or leak it on the Friday afternoon before a major national holiday. Such was the case this Memorial Day weekend when three executive orders designed to whip the bureaucracy in shape were issued Friday afternoon.
President Donald Trump has signed executive orders making it easier to fire poor-performing federal employees and overhaul federal employees union rights. J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn to talk about the EOs and their potential impact. May 30, 2018
President Donald Trump signed three executive orders Friday aimed at reducing the time it takes to fire poor-performing federal employees and overhauling federal employees union rights, including limits to official time.
The debate over official time may heat up again, as the Trump administration continues to suggest changes to the current civil service system.