I keep reading and hearing comments from career postal employees saying we should be getting bonuses for being essential employees like Walmart employees are getting. As essential workers, when Congress canât balance the checkbook and the rest of the federal workforce is furloughed while we get to keep punching the time clock and even earn…
By Joe Davidson – June 27, 2017 Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), now the former chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, will leave a legacy when he quits Congress at 10 a.m. Friday, but we might not have his mug to remind us. If incoming Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) does as Chaffetz did,…
News Release – January 14, 2016 SAN ANTONIO, TX â Beth Cobert, Acting Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), is in San Antonio today to discuss the successful implementation of the Presidentâs Executive Order (EO) Employment of Veterans in the Federal Government. In preliminary data, for FY 2015, veterans accounted for 32.3…
July 4, 2015 As our hardworking Federal workforce enjoys a much-deserved holiday weekend, I want to share a quick update on the ongoing investigation into the recent theft of information from OPMâs networks. For those individuals whose data may have been compromised in the intrusion affecting personnel records, we are providing credit monitoring and identity…
PRESS RELEASE 6-15-15 WASHINGTON – There is no one magic bullet to stop workplace harassment or prevent its occurrence and the efficacy of solutions such as training varies widely, a panel of psychologists told the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Select Task Force on Workplace Harassment (STF) at a public meeting held today. This…
(November 9, 2014) Ask Sen. Ron Johnson about federal employee priorities and the first thing he talks about is his concern that the governmentâs deficit spending will reach $127 trillion over 30 years. Thatâs the prism filtering the view of this first-term senator from Oshkosh, Wis., a tea party Republican and former plastics businessman. His…
Republicans won control of the Senate Tuesday, with several lawmakers historically friendly toward federal employees defeated. In Arkansas, Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Pryor was defeated by Republican Rep. Tom Cotton. Pryor sits on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which has oversight over the federal workforce. He is one of the most conservative…
The percentage of women in the federal workforce is declining, according to the latest data, while the percentage of minority employees has remained stagnant. A new report from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission showed women made up 43.81 percent of the federal workforce in fiscal 2011, down from 43.97 in fiscal 2010. Women made up…
