Federal Employees

News article references and commentary scraped from the web in an effort to inform the federal government worker on Federal Pay, Federal Benefits, Federal Retirement and all information relating to the Federal Workforce.

Jun 30, 2013

Reports of NSA snooping on Europe go well beyond previous revelations of electronic spying

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Berlin accuses Washington of cold war tactics over snooping '...Transatlantic relations plunged at the weekend as Berlin, Brussels an...
Jun 27, 2013

FERS Retirement Eligibility Information

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FERS Retirement Eligibility Information '...An immediate retirement benefit is one that starts within 30 days from the date you stop w...
Jun 16, 2013

Federal employee health and fitness programs

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Federal workers get health and fitness programs '...retired Army colonel and former Anne Arundel County councilman working as a civil...
Jun 13, 2013

DC area feds can take 'unscheduled leave' or telework day due to potential severe weather

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Federal workers can take unscheduled leave or telework day, OPM says '...Federal agencies will be open on Thursday as the region brace...
Jun 5, 2013

2014: Federal Employees may see tiny pay raise in Jan.

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White House again calls for federal employee raise '...Administration urges the Congress to provide the proposed 1.0 percent pay incre...
Jun 2, 2013

Lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice

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Female prison workers filing class action against DOJ, Federal Bureau of Prisons '..."The overall outcome is to seek change. The...
May 19, 2013

Benghazi federal workers remembered

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In Benghazi and beyond, federal workers who died on the job are remembered '...Let’s take a break from the raging discord that has do...
Apr 15, 2013

Bill would undermine the 'Stock Act'

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U.S. House Clears Bill Obscuring Federal Workers’ Assets '...Federal employee groups had lobbied for the change, saying that easy acce...
Mar 22, 2013

Food safety and inspection workers avoid 11 days of furlough

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Meat industry rescues federal workers '...Over 9,000 federal food inspectors won’t face furloughs after top companies from the meat a...
Mar 4, 2013

Let the furloughs begin!

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Alternatives to sequester could hit federal employees in other ways '...Political leaders met Friday but failed, at least for now, to...
Mar 2, 2013

Federal employees began receiving furlough notices on Friday

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Federal Furlough Notices Go Out As Sequestration Takes Effect '...More than 1 million federal employees face the possibility of unpai...
Feb 26, 2013

Likely that sequester will begin

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Ben Bernanke: Find sequester alternative '...Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned lawmakers Tuesday that allowing automatic bu...
Feb 18, 2013

TSA officers get training on Homeland Security strategies to counter terrorism

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TSA officers go to college to learn to counterterrorism '...The TSA officers either have completed or are enrolled in a college-level...
Feb 11, 2013

2014 Federal Employee Pay Raise Update

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Obama to propose 1 percent pay hike for federal employees '...At the same time, the House plans to vote soon on legislation that woul...
Jan 26, 2013

Federal Hiring Update: Students and Recent Graduates

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Recruiting and Hiring Students and Recent Graduates '...These programs, collectively the Pathways Programs, are streamlined developme...
Jan 24, 2013

Workers comp fraud

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Lakeland Woman Pleads Gulty to Theft of Federal Employee Compensation Funds '...claimed she was not employed, reported no income and l...
Jan 13, 2013

Social Security employee arrested for looking at child porn on work computer

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Federal employee arrested at Seattle office, accused of looking at child porn on work computer '...Social Security employee was arrest...
Jan 12, 2013

Focusing on rewards for the federal workforce is important

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MSPB: Room for Improvement in Rewarding Federal Employees '...The MSPB notes in its report that focusing on rewards for the federal w...
Jan 5, 2013

FBI investigated "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace

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FBI releases files on late "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace '...detailing their scrutiny of a 1970 trip Wallace took ...
Jan 3, 2013

GOP politicians no fan of federal workers and the working class

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Federal workers targeted by cost-cutting politicians '...Aside from federal workers losing $103 billion in compensation reductions si...
Jan 2, 2013

House votes to freeze federal worker pay

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House votes to freeze congressional, federal worker pay '...But first lawmakers voted on a plan to freeze the salaries of lawmakers an...
Dec 28, 2012

Pay raise for federal workers in 2013?

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Obama Orders Pay Raise For Congress, Federal Workers, Joe Biden '...As of March 27, 2013, federal employees will see a half-percent t...
Dec 27, 2012

Ex-TSA Agent spills the beans

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Ex-TSA Agent Dishes on Image Screening Rooms '...Ever wonder what happens in the airport back room where your body image is being scr...
Dec 23, 2012

Items found by TSA this week

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TSA Week in Review: Speargun, Grenades, and Guns Among Things Discovered at TSA Checkpoints This Week '...We continue to find inert ...
Dec 19, 2012

Change to 'chained CPI"' will harm Federal Workers

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AFGE: Chained CPI Deal Harmful for Federal Workers, Middle Class '..."This move marks a shameful abandonment of his campaign prom...
Dec 18, 2012

Federal prisoners escape

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2 inmates escape from federal prison in Chicago '...Authorities say two men being held on bank robbery charges have escaped from a dow...
Dec 17, 2012

DHS Worst Large Place to Work of Federal Agencies

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Homeland Security Named Worst Big Place to Work of Federal Agencies '...Workers at the Department of Homeland Security are the least ...
Dec 14, 2012

CIA operative is a star... secretly

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CIA's most famous operative is a secret star '...Perhaps inevitably, questions are mounting about the CIA employee, her personal...
Dec 13, 2012

Would sequestration offer buyouts?

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Federal worker Q&A guide to the fiscal cliff: Ten answers on jobs, cuts and more '...It is common for agencies to offer one or bo...
Dec 11, 2012

OPM says Jan. 2013 to see wave of federal employee retirements

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Federal retirement claims fall last month but OPM predicts swell in January '...Overall, federal employees filed 6,584 retirement clai...
Nov 5, 2012

TSA moving forward with next gen imaging

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TSA Shuffles Deployment of Whole Body Imagers at US Airports '...TSA is moving forward in an effort to develop a "next generatio...
Nov 1, 2012

Did the APWU sign one of the worst negotiated contracts in the history of labor?

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How the Postal Service foundered: Parceling out the responsibility '...Fred Rolando, the union’s president, has offered negotiating p...
Oct 26, 2012

Shrinking federal buyouts: An offer easily refused

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$hrinking buyouts: An offer you can't refuse? '... Federal buyouts come in many flavors. If you work for most federal agencies th...
Oct 23, 2012

Federal Agency switching to iPhone

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U.S. Federal Agency Switching 17,600 Employees From BlackBerry to iPhone: Report '...Reuters is reporting that the U.S. Immigration a...
Sep 26, 2012

Federal workforce to take hit in recovering economy

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A Recovering Economy Won't Include Federal Workers '...in Detroit, the federal government is expected to cut 4,000 jobs by 2022, ...
Sep 24, 2012

Some understand the need for a strong federal workforce

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As congressional ally retires, federal employee advocates cite progress, challenges '...A leading advocate in Congress for federal wo...
Sep 17, 2012

Federal employee pay raises? The bigger worry may be health care

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Forget the Pay Freeze: Start Worrying About Health Care Costs '... Buried in the news over the extended federal pay freeze, the impendi...
Sep 14, 2012

Body of US Ambassador to Libya Returned

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Bodies of 4 Americans killed in Libya returned to the U.S. '...The bodies of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and three...
Sep 7, 2012

CFC kicks off for 2012 (September 1st to December 15th)

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2012 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) '...CFC is the world's largest and most successful annual workplace charity campaign, with mo...
Sep 5, 2012

EPA's Margo Oge, director of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Transportation and Air Quality stepping down

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Key EPA auto regulator Margo Oge stepping down '...Margo Oge, director of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Transpor...
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