Modernization
One year after outage, MSPB shakes up tech shop
The Merit Systems Protection Board is reassigning its long-serving CIO in the wake of a systems outage that continues to ripple through the agency.
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Favoritism and other pernicious practices
More than a few feds have indicated that they believe favoritism is alive and well in the federal workplace.
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'Insufficient training' not an easy excuse
Training can advance your performance — but what if you don't get it?
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Getting rid of the deadwood
“Employees should be retained on the basis of the adequacy of their performance,” according to the sixth Merit Principle.
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Well, federal women, what do you think?
Two sets of information about women in the federal workplace came out this week.
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Taking the fifth
What constitutes "efficient and effective"? Ask your member of Congress.
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Out of sight, out of mind
Because we can’t bring ourselves to type the words “government shutdown” even one more time today, it seems like the right time to attack another subject. And that subject is…
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That nasty old pay issue
The Merit System Principle for March, which focuses on equal pay, likely will set a few readers’ teeth on edge, especially as Congress wrangles over cutting just about everything under the sun.
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And now—Principle No. 2!
OK, it’s that time again—time for the monthly Merit System Principle. Principle No. 2—detailed on the Merit Systems Protection Board Web site—covers fair and equitable treatment, including matters of discrimination.
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Those darned prohibited personnel practices
Quick—how many Merit System Principles are there? If you asked: What’s a Merit System Principle? then you probably don’t know that there are nine, and that they are the basic standards that govern the management of the executive branch workforce.
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Just whistle ...
As we sift through legal cases as part of our news reporting process, we sure see a lot of feds fail at pressing whistleblower claims and/or obtaining redress for whistleblowing-related retaliation—and it’s not because of a shortage of wrongdoing in the federal government.
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