Obtained disability retirement and a cash settlement for a postal employee, thus allowing him to relocate from Florida to New York to be with his family in order to recover from a medical condition.
Achieved reinstatement of a Federal Air Marshall with full back pay and benefits for a total compensation of over $100,000 after his termination.
Obtained reversal of a denial of disability retirement for a postal employee by the OPM, plus attorneys fees from the MSPB.
Another question which OPM has not settled is whether members of Congress and their staff stand to lose the employer contribution toward premiums, which is worth about 70 percent of the total in FEHB, by switching to the exchange system. Some read the law as meaning that will happen. That prospect has drawn attention recently [...]
TSP investors may want to adjust their withholding amounts about this time of year due to the change in the maximum allowable investment, called the elective deferral limit, for this calendar year. That limit had been $17,000 last year but is $17,500 this year. Investors who wish to invest at the maximum will want to [...]
In combining and passing two high-priority bills, Congress dropped several proposals to require higher retirement contributions by all employees but backed a plan to create a “phased retirement” authority. Bills extending some transportation programs and a student loan rate reduction were merged, but the final version that has now been signed by President Obama (P.L. [...]
A plan to create phased retirement for federal employees as well as authority to invest in the TSP the value of unused annual leave at separation has suffered a setback in the House but not necessarily a fatal one. An attempt was made during House voting on the DoD authorization bill (HR-4310) to add those [...]
According to a statement from OPM, in FY 2011 the federal government hired the highest percentage of veterans in over 20 years. President Obama created the Veterans Employment Initiative to spur hiring veterans by helping federal agencies identify qualified veterans, clarify the hiring process for veterans seeking employment with the federal government, and help them [...]
New regulations to the Americans with Disabilities Act open up the possibility of an increase in disability class action lawsuits. The amendments to the ADA make it easier for individuals to determine if they qualify as having a disability and focus more on how an employer treats their employees, and less on what the employer [...]
