Archive for October, 2009

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Today, President Obama signed the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act. Included in the bill was a provision to repeal the controversial National Security Personnel System (NSPS). The bill also contained several small provisions impacting retirement benefits for the federal workforce. The NSPS provisions in the bill dictate a repeal of the [...]

Oct 23, 2009 The Senate has passed a bill that would end the National Security Personnel System.(NSPS) and make it more difficult to award sole-source contracts. The measure would authorize spending $550.2 billion on Defense Department programs in fiscal 2010. On Oct. 22, the Senate approved the fiscal 2010 National Defense Authorization Act’s conference report [...]

Friday, October 9, 2009 Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the conference report on the FY 2010 Defense Authorization Act, which includes provisions to repeal the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) and convert the over 200,000 employees enrolled under the program back into existing pay systems. The legislation also contains provisions giving retiring employees enrolled [...]

Last week Sarah, David and I attended a Federal Employee Seminar at Winpisinger Education & Technology Center in Placid Harbor, Maryland. The seminar covered a variety of issues that affect federal employees at all levels, from personal, such as worker’s compensation and venues of pursuing grievances to government-wide, such as legislative topics that affect federal employees. Please [...]

Thank you to everyone that responded to the survey. We received responses from more than 70% of bargaining unit. There are two big facts I want to clear up to some that have voiced concerns: 1. This initiative is to add services and will not affect the current use policy for the gym. The gym [...]