Trump to freeze non-military federal raises
President Trump repeated his call for lawmakers to freeze the salaries of 2 million federal employees in 2019 Thursday, even threatening to use his executive powers to do so. Trump’s pay freeze doesn’t apply More...
Study Finds Minimum Wage Hike May Hurt Lowest-Paid Workers
Workers in Seattle may soon have a harder time getting their resumes through to recruiters. A new study out of the University of Washington may upend the minimum wage fight in Seattle. The highly-anticipated study, More...
The Trump administration’s letter on their ‘hiring freeze’ to cut positions through attrition
President Trump has been busy with executive orders and now a released memo confirms a federal hiring freeze, check out the details below. MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT: More...
10 Ways Your Business Can Gain Advantage Over the Competition
It goes without saying that there is a lot of competition in the business world – regardless of the industry you are in, chances are, there are other businesses that offer almost the same products or services More...
Judge rules that Illinois budget crisis will result in state employees not being paid
While Illinois’ Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner battles Democrats, who control the Legislature, to approve a budget, the state may not continue to pay state workers in full, according a Cook County ruling today. Attorney More...
How To Not Let A Bad Boss Keep You Down
Do you have a bad boss? There are different levels of bad bosses, when you think about it. You have the bosses that just don’t care, and then the ones that seem to care too much. There are strict bosses and bosses More...
Elijah Cummings says federal workers come to ‘feed their souls’
While fighting to get Federal employees raises, one rep made the role of the federal worker sound awfully “altruistic.” Rep. Elijah Cummings (D–Md.) says, “so many people come to government knowing More...
President Obama lifts freeze on federal salaries, Congress and Joe Biden will get a raise
President Barack Obama issued an executive order to end the pay freeze on federal employees, in effect giving some federal workers a raise. One federal worker now to receive a pay increase is Vice President Joe More...
Government Shutdown will mean paid vacation for workers
Government Shutdown. That’s the topic du jour in the Newsiverse. But is a government shutdown as terrifying as these talking heads are leading us to believe? Maybe it is a very bad thing if you are one of the More...
Want to know why states and localities are going broke?-look at the salaries and benefits of it’s employees
We have all read about the disparities between federal employee salaries and the private sector and their extravagant benefit packages. Do we have the same issues in states and cities? Why is Gov. Schwarzenegger’s More...
