Gender Change and the Federal Hiring Process
A male applicant selected for a job at the Library of Congress had a 25-year career with the Army Special Forces. When David met with the selecting official and explained he would be starting work as a woman, the job offer was rescinded. The case went to court on the issue of sex discrimination and sex stereotyping.
Posted: September 22, 2008 6:39 AM | Full Story
50 Richest Members of Congress
Members of Congress don't make millions of dollars in federal salary but they seem to be getting by okay. There are a number of Members worth millions of dollars. Here is a ranking of some of the wealthiest.
Posted: September 22, 2008 8:57 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
McCain, Obama and Employment Issues
Regardless of who gets elected, employment lawyers say labor laws could get reshuffled in areas as varied as union organizing and gay rights.
Posted: September 22, 2008 6:57 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
- Employee Free Choice Act: Candidate Obama's Achilles Heel?
- John McCain: If You Are Disappointed With Government, Join It
- Reforming the "20th-Century Bureaucracy" Under a President Obama
"Insourcing" Work
The 2008 Defense Authorization Act directed the Pentagon to consider having work done "in house" for any work performed by contractors previously done by federal employees, was awarded to contractors without a competition, or that was poorly performed by contractors.
Posted: September 22, 2008 6:53 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Relationship Between Federal Employees and Environmental Groups Under Investigation
The Interior Department's inspector general has started a probe into inappropriate ties between environmental lobbyists and the National Landscape Conservation System. Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT), the ranking member of the national parks, forests and public lands subcommittee, has asked for quick action and demanded that federal employees under scrutiny be removed, at least temporarily.
Posted: September 20, 2008 8:54 PM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Oldest Evidence of Human Presence in North America
A man who calls himself a "used archaeological site salesman" is, in reality, an archeologist for a district of the Bureau of Land Management. He has been instrumental in helping us learn about when the first people came to North America and where they came from. As a result, we now have the "oldest evidence of human presence" in North America.
Posted: September 22, 2008 7:12 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
Setting a VA Record
This volunteer made VA history: a record 62,038 volunteer hours at Miami's Veterans Administration Medical Center and its Coral Gables predecessor. She died this month at 101.
Posted: September 22, 2008 7:01 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
