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- Appeals court strikes down DOMA in federal employee case
- Resolution praising feds has bleak future
- Federal workers’ pay satisfaction drops, though feelings vary among agencies
- IRS to close 43 small offices
- Not everyone is comfortable reporting unethical behavior, survey indicates
- Senators say Secret Service scandal could reflect agency’s culture
- Director to defend agency and code of conduct
- Secret Service director plans to defend agency and outline code of conduct
- Government has foreign language deficit
- Secret Service director to testify about scandal
- Federal Diary: House subcommittee looks into Homeland Security corruption
- House probes corruption in DHS agencies
- Lawmakers find bipartisan ground on behalf of federal workforce
- Senate panel approves benefits for same-sex partners of federal employees
- Federal agent slain by lynch mob is honored
- New federal limits on travel, meetings
- Obama administration issues new travel and conference rules
- House action amounts to federal pay cut
- Senate passes whistleblower protections — again
- Public Service Recognition Week provides relief from a month of scandals
- Cabinet members honor feds
- Top federal contractors get 10 percent raise
- Postal Board of Governors knocks Senate legislation
- For Uncle Sam, issues of same-sex bias, transgender equality
- The good, bad and ugly of the Homeland Security Department
- Award winners save federal government billions
- Federal Diary: Postal workers are luke-warm to Senate proposal
- GOP wants feds to pay more for retirement
- Secret Service needs more women in its ranks
- Postal Service workers wouldn’t be only ones hit by Senate bill
- Busy week for issues affecting feds
- OPM offers online telework course
- Secret Service agents: All brave, a few foolish
- Ripple effects of GSA scandal
- GSA scandal probe moves to Senate
- House panel tells GSA, ‘Party’s over’
- An embarrassing week for feds
- GSA scandal hearings scheduled for this week
- A lively debate on hiring Latinos in the federal government
- U.S. Secret Service agents leave Colombia over prostitution inquiry
- Pentagon warns against bogus e-mails
- Why did Obama refuse executive order?
- EEOC commissioner resigns seat
- Obama prefers Congress to move on anti-bias rules
- Congress members call for White House action against discrimination
- Readers react to the GSA spending scandal
- All feds pay the price for GSA scandal
- Bill would extend benefits to same-sex partners
- GSA got the memo, but it was too late
- GSA chief resigns amid reports of excessive spending
- Domestic partners bill gets boost in Senate
- Senate panel examines contractor spending
- Senate hearing examines contractor costs
- How many airport security screeners is too many?
- Possible cuts in workers’ compensation cause concern
- Audit questions charity’s expenses
- Federal health benefits win for gay couple is limited
- White House: Same-sex spouse may get health-care coverage
- Obama administration allows health coverage for same-sex spouse
- Active week on Capitol Hill for federal workers
- Homeland Security’s morale is at code red
- Low morale at Homeland Security is focus of congressional hearing
- EEOC report shows little change in federal workforce
- Senate panel considers Obama’s reorganization plan
- GOP budget would mean five-year pay freeze for federal workers
- Morning Joe plugs column on Ted Stevens
- Seeking justice at the Justice Department
- Work increases and staff shrinks at MSPB
- Medicare bill would hike costs to federal workers
- GAO has good ideas on ending the overlap of federal programs
- White House making whistleblower advocates nervous
- For Public Health Service officers, no protection for whistleblowing
- OPM director calls for training feds, diversity
- Another hand in the pockets of federal workers
- Federal unions blast effort to extend pay freeze
- Agencies told to submit diversity plans
- Readers respond on workforce size and gay federal employees
- Former federal union lawyer joins firm
- Bill would update Hatch Act, which regulates federal worker involvement in politics
- Legislators seek Hatch Act reforms
- Florida congressman Ross discusses federal workforce issues
- Rep. Donald Payne praised by federal unions
- Do OPM program’s e-mail issues indicate broader problems?
- Presidential Management Fellowship Program examined
- Summit examines diversity in federal workplace
- Uncle Sam didn’t welcome gay employees
- AFGE, SSA reach ‘conceptual’ contract
- NTEU launches Web site to counter ‘false statements’ against federal workers
- Top civil servant mobility program appears mostly stagnant
- Senior Executive Service officials tend to stay put
- Judge finds DOMA discriminatory
- A win for retired Maryland National Guard worker on buyouts
- Administration moves to advance benefits for same-sex partners of federal workers
- Federal worker prevails in discrimination case against Social Security
- Proposed pension contribution hike is latest foray into federal worker pockets
- Targeting only federal workers is unfair, Steny Hoyer says
- House panel’s hearing attracts little interest, except for its long title
- Federal Diary: Government continues to shrink, despite ‘obesity problem’ rhetoric
- Federal Diary: ‘Modest’ raise in Obama’s proposed budget doesn’t satisfy workforce
- Federal budget 2013: Plan calls for increase in federal employee pension contributions
- Rep. Elijah Cummings: Federal workers ‘have sacrified enough’
- Cummings says federal employees have sacrificed enough
- CBO report becomes Republicans’ ammunition to continue pay freeze
- Federal Diary: House Republicans target federal workforce
- In pension calculations, proposed ‘high five’ is really a slap in the face
- Retired federal workers wait for system fix
- Senate studies delays in federal retirees’ annuity payments
- CBO weighs in with a report on wages
- Readers respond
- House Republicans target their own benefits
- Hearing on federal retirement benefits is better late than never
- Federal retirees face confusion, possibly payment delay
- 50 years ago, Kennedy’s order empowered federal unions
- Federal Diary: Federal workers contribute ideas for streamlining government
- Federal Diary: OPM has plan to fix retirement program
- OPM sends Congress its plan to fix retirement services
- Across-the-board cuts in federal workplace may not be wise or safe
- Federal agencies tighten belts with buyouts, early retirements
- Increasing diversity is among OPM chief’s top goals
- Where can a federal employee find recourse?
- Obama team altering appraisal system for top-level civil servants
- Park ranger’s death highlights the risks in federal law enforcement
- OPM chief’s memo details year’s high points
- Federal Diary: Readers weigh in on pay freeze, retirement glitches and TSA screeners
- Is the government reimbursing companies facing legal actions by whistleblowers?
- Union representing airport screeners says it’s tough getting TSA to the table
- Flag bill to honor federal workers headed to Obama’s desk
- House plays the anti-Santa to federal workers
- Arbitrator thrashes Cuba Broadcasting over worker treatment
- GOP again wants to take bite from federal workers to close budget gap
- After complaint, he landed in basement
- Workers’ comp reform has lawmakers crisscrossing partisan lines
- Payroll tax-cut plan rejected, but workers aren’t in the clear
- Unions blast GOP plan to extend federal pay freeze
- Federal retirees wait months for payments, as OPM backlog drags on
- Lawmaker challenges TSA on claims of ethnic profiling
- Mica revives privatized airport security idea
- How the supercommittee's failure will impact federal employees
- Debt panel a super failure? It was always lose-lose for federal workforce.
- What a ‘supercommittee’ failure could mean for federal workers
- Readers talk back on postal workers, pay issues
- Report shows federal workers are increasingly dreary about their jobs
- USAJobs missteps prompt House panel to take a closer look at OPM
- Open enrollment for federal health benefits starts quietly
- Diplomats respond bluntly to Rick Perry
- Are recent problems with Web site signs of deeper woes at OPM?
- More veterans, disabled or not, finding jobs in U.S. agencies
- As Pentagon’s civilian workforce faces cuts, alarms ring about more
- Federal union workers join Occupy protesters
- House panel hearing explores U.S. government contractors’ exploitation of workers overseas
- GAO questions Pentagon’s efforts to prevent sex harassment
- Debt at home means no work for defense contractor
- State’s actions against Peter Van Buren offer a few lessons on use of classified info, power
- OMB employees seek work-life balance via union vote
- OMB employees vote on whether to form a union
- Anthrax attacks still resonate with postal workers 10 years later
- Retirees get a raise; widely supported whistleblower bill moves
- Federal Diary: Whistleblowers get a defender
- Budget-cutting proposals could affect federal employees
- IRS chief: Budget cuts would hurt U.S., taxpayers
- Democrats want supercommittee to reject more federal worker cuts
- Kameny’s fight for gay rights made federal workforce better for us all
- Federal labor-management forums look like GOP target
- Readers on uncivil discourse, diversity and honor flags
- Michelle Obama thanks the Secret Service
- Michelle Obama visits Secret Service to express thanks for family’s protection
- Michelle Obama thanks the Secret Service
- Respect for federal workers focus to two meetings in Washington
- Potential Social Security Administration budget cuts paint bleak picture for aging population
- Federal Diary: Correctional officers’ arrests are on the rise
- Crime by federal correctional officers is on the rise, report finds
- Federal worker groups have much to say on Obama’s deficit reduction plan
- Employees have their say in workplace survey
- Federal Diary: Health insurance costs rise at lower rate, but they still rise
- Federal health insurance rate hike lowest since ’08
- Making smart cuts in a difficult federal budget climate
- Survey shows federal workers’ resilience
- Report: Latinos in SES will be ‘vastly underrepresented’ by 2030
- Defining intelligence contractors’ jobs, and pay, is a fuzzy job
- Federal unions decry Obama ‘tax increase’
- Obama calls for raising employee contributions to retirement plans
- Labor unions join to fight cuts to federal workforce
- Rewards of federal service
- Alliance pledges to defend federal workforce from ‘irresponsible cuts’
- Federal workers groups pledge to fight potential supercommittee cuts
- Federal-worker flag salute won’t fly
- Ten years after 9/11, are federal employees safer in their workplaces?
- Where they were: On 9/11 anniversary, federal employees recall their experiences
- Federal workers eye ‘supercommittee’
- Untangling financial knots at Postal Service won’t be easy
- Postmaster Donahoe to beg Congress for Postal Service’s life
- Postal Service fighting for its life
- High value federal jobs include ‘miscellaneous clerk and assistant’
- High-value federal jobs include clerks, assistants and forestry technicians
- For civilian heroes of Fort Hood rampage, Army service appears over
- Fort Hood heroes leave base police force
- Report on post-9/11 reorganizations focuses on leadership
- Report offers lessons on government reorganizations
- What Postal Service can’t win from labor unions it hopes to get from Congress
- Office of Management and Budget puts accountability online
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