Legal Beat: Furloughed Feds Could Lose Security Clearance Due to Debt
Q. I’m a federal employee, and between all the furloughs brought by sequestration and the shutdown, I’m starting to have trouble paying my bills. I know financial problems…
Summertime Sick Leave Abuse Can Sink Federal Careers
For many federal employees stuck at work on sunny summer days, longing looks outside office windows grow longer and the temptation to play hooky grows stronger. However, employees…
Marital Status Discrimination: The Rules of Engagement
By Mathew B. Tully It seems as though not a day goes by without some new study showing why it is better to be either married, single or in a cohabitating relationship. Just last…
Fed Employees’ Removals Reversed Because of Termination Secrets
Federal agency managers had better start laying all their cards on the table when it comes to the information they use in their decisions to fire employees. As of February 2011,…