Because Democracy is Not Free — we all have to work at it
On the issue of retaining a lawyer or going pro se, if you install a new kitchen faucet on your own, does anyone ever ask if you’re “anti-plumber?” If one was to fix their own faucet, that doesn’t mean that they would likewise bore through concrete to fix a critical plumbing line to the main feed. I went [...]
OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL (OSC) AGENCY JOB TENURE FROM FEDSCOPE.OPM.GOV SEPTEMBER 2009 Less than 1 year 14 1 – 2 years 11 3 – 4 years 12 5 – 9 years 26 10 – 14 years 14 15 – 19 years 8 20 – 24 years 10 25 – 29 years 6 30 [...]
http://www.fedscope.opm.gov/ I did a quick cross-check between the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)’s federal worker database and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s recently released report on the Federal Workforce. Because OPM’s database is transparent to a high level of detail and kept current with quarterly data, I’d give more credibility to it over the opaque annual report [...]
Here it is: http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/reports/fsp2009/ Once again, it’s a busy time for me (even though it’s summer). I’ll review and comment on it shortly and send out a news release. If you’re not on our email distribution, fill out the form on the right hand side of your screen and it will be sent to you [...]
I’ve run preliminary summaries for Fiscal Year 2009 case statistics on the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), and I was surprised by what I found. Give me some time to contemplate what the new numbers mean, and why the figures look different than in FY 2007 and 2008. (My initial take was that the numbers would [...]
Not exactly a new theme. I am speaking, of course, of the Department of Veterans Affairs abandoning the men and women who served in America’s Armed Forces, and to whom the Agency purportedly serves. For those veterans who served in the Vietnam War, one of the most egregious examples of willful abandonment occurred over the [...]
Request for Federal Employee Statistics on EEOC & Attorney Examiner Elements and Standards Here is a compilation of requests for information from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. For those of you who have waited three years for me to send this, I have this to say: It’s not hard to do, and anyone can do [...]
Tomorrow, Scott Bloch, former head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), is scheduled to be sentenced before Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson. Bloch has pleaded guilty to one count of criminal contempt of Congress for not disclosing the nature and extent of his instructions that a private company erase files from his government-issued computer and [...]
From: Parker, Bernard [mailto:Bernard.Parker@mspb.gov] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 1:36 PM To: democracy@civilservicechange.org Subject: MSPB’s Response to Your FOIA Request Dated June 23, 2010 Ms. Charlotte Yee 39120 Argonaut Way 305 Fremont, CA 94538 FOIA Tracking No. CB10 – 303 Dear Ms. Yee: This is in response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), request [...]
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) recently received a response to their Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for Attorney Examiner Elements and Standards for Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) employees. Here’s the document. After reading the piece, I have a better idea of what is going on with the changes at MSPB. Carry on, [...]