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Do excepted service years count toward federal retirement?
Excepted service positions are any federal or civil service positions which are not in the competitive service or the Senior Executive service.
By Reg Jones
Can a union court case end future government shutdowns?
The U.S. District Court for the District of Colombia will determine if a lawsuit alleging that the government can't make employees work without compensation during a shutdown has the merit to proceed.
By Jessie Bur
Agencies: Don’t Interfere with the oral reply
Deciding officials have been increasingly hostile toward employee representatives that speak during an oral reply for adverse action appeals.
By Debra Roth
Open Season 2020
Feds have until Dec. 9 to decide if they would like to enroll in federal health insurance for the first time, change plans or keep the plan they currently have.
By Reg Jones
How giving at national parks is ‘all about love’
Reginald Chapple, chief of the National Park Service Office of Partnerships and Philanthropy, discusses the landscape of donations in the nation's public lands.
By Jessie Bur
Senators urge leadership to protect unions in funding bills
Democratic senators are hoping to use fiscal year 2020 funding legislation to bar agencies from enforcing collective bargaining agreements without making good-faith negotiations.
By Jessie Bur
Lawmakers call on White House to name 5G coordinator
A bipartisan group of senators called on the White House to name a 5G coordinator to tackle what lawmakers described as an “unprecedented security challenge” presented by the new technology.
By Andrew Eversden
Trump administration aims to up federal diversity, cut poor performers
Hiring initiatives to bring people "off the sidelines" were spotlighted at the Nov. 18 Chief Human Capital Officers Council meeting, but administration officials also pushed for greater adverse action authority.
By Jessie Bur
What is a continuing resolution?
A CR usually means the regular process of passing 12 appropriations bills by the start of the fiscal year has failed.
By Joe Gould
Is another year of financial losses beyond USPS control?
The U.S. Postal Service's $8.8 billion in losses for 2019 may be down to requirements places on the agency, rather than its business plan.
By Jessie Bur
Dear Bureaucrat, Where is my tribe?
Building a community among people who do the same work as you is valuable, and it can work, but it may take more than one online search.
By David S. Reed