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OPM ADDRESSES WHAT IS AND ISN’T STILL NEGOTIABLE ON PERFORMANCE APPRAISALS Now that we are moving to a forced distribution rating environment which will require each manager to brand some employees as the worst in the group even if they … Continue reading
WANT A FED JOB? GET A TRUMP TATTOO I’m kidding—or am I? An AI start-up got headlines recently for announcing that the process for getting a job with it began with getting a tattoo of the company logo. What a … Continue reading
WHAT IS “THE HEIST?” It is a newly released documentary about you. More specifically, it recounts the 2025 chaos the Trump/DOGE madness created in government. It details what to the 249-year- old American civil service established on the concept of … Continue reading
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NTEU GETS HUGE WIN FOR HHS PROBATIONERS Early in his 2025 revenge tour against the federal civil service, Trump demanded that agencies purge as many probationers as they could. Normally, he and any other President has the power to do … Continue reading
GRIEVANCE DRAFTING TIPS 1, 2 & 3 Most contracts merely require the union to put the following in the grievance: 1- Article and section violated, 2- Description of the grieved event, and 3- Remedy desired. As clear as that or … Continue reading
GRIEVANCE DRAFTING TIPS 4, 5, & 6 Before we turn to three other parts of a grievance where you can boost its winning potential and impact, remember this. If you were unable to draft the grievance broadly enough during the … Continue reading
NFFE WINS BREAKTHROUGH TELEWORK ARBITRATION AWARD NFFE’s General Counsel’s shop has done all of us a favor with its recent arbitration victory. Like most unions since Trump’s anti-common sense decision to stamp out telework, it has had to file grievances … Continue reading
ARE THE DOUGLAS FACTORS GONE? Not yet, but Trump’s appointees are doing their best to punish federal employees just for being part of the government that came after him and the January 6th terrorists. Its latest revenge initiative, but hardly … Continue reading
TWO FEDS GET SHARE OF $1.7 MILLION FINE AGAINST CHEATING CONTRACTORS Private contractors are everywhere in government because a bundle of politicians believe that private sector firms can always do the work faster, better, and cheaper than federal employees. I … Continue reading
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WHEN CO-WORKERS HARASS EEO COMPLAINANTS An employee filed an EEO complaint alleging disparate treatment, which was found to be without merit. However, before the agency dismissed the complaint, the supervisors put out the word that they were going to begin … Continue reading
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