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President Looks to Federal Agencies to Set Standard for Gender Pay Equality

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The President has signed an order in an attempt to equalize men and women’s pay in the federal government.

According to the order, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn.

“Unjust pay disparities are a detriment to women, families and our economy,” President Barack Obama wrote in the order.

Obama explained that, while federal employees’ salary ranges are typically set by law, administrative discretion can affect the final salary paid to an employee.

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Majority of Americans feel Feds don't Work as Hard as Private Sector, Survey finds

Written by FEDmanager on . Posted in General News

More than half of Americans feel federal workers do not work as hard as those in the private sector, according to a new survey from Rasmussen Reports.

Sixty-eight percent of respondents answered the question, “Who works harder, government workers or workers in the private sector?” with private sector employees. Only 9 percent said government employees work harder than private sector workers, Rasmussen said, and 23 percent were unsure.

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YGL Profiles

Shaun Khalfan, Senior Business, Policy and Technical Advisory for Cybersecurity

Young Government Leaders is a non-profit professional organization founded and led by young government employees. YGL strives to build a community of leadership for young feds through professional development events, networking opportunities, social events, seminars, fellowships and scholarships.

YGL Profiles is a column series written by YGL that offers insights from senior government leaders.

Shaun Khalfan serves as a senior business, policy and technical advisor for cybersecurity with the Department of the Navy Chief Information Office.

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Weekly Leadership Reflection

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Gen. Colin Powell

Heard Inside the Beltway

If, in fact, IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that’s outrageous, and there’s no place for it.

President Barack Obama, referring to reports that Internal Revenue Service employees intentionally applied a higher level of scrutiny to conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status

From the Hill

Debt Limit Bill Passed by House

Legislation passed last week in the House would give the Treasury Department the authority to borrow money above the debt limit to make payments on the public debt and Social Security trust funds.

The Full Faith and Credit Act, H.R. 807, would apply if the government hits the debt ceiling and would only allow it to borrow money above the debt limit for those categories of payments, giving payments on the principal and interest on public debt and Social Security priority over other types of payments. Lawmakers also included an amendment that would prohibit Treasury from borrowing money above the debt limit to pay lawmakers’ salaries.

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Case Law Update

Employee not Required to Actually Perform Duties in New Position before Position becomes "Effective" for Jurisdictional Purposes

Yong Kim was chosen by the Department of the Army to be promoted from his GS-13, Step 9 position as an Electrical Engineer to a National Security Personnel System (NSPS) YF-2 position as a Supervisory Electrical Engineer. Kim accepted the position in early January. Several weeks later, Kim contacted the agency to see whether it could expedite the processing of his salary adjustment before his scheduled deployment to Afghanistan on February 1, 2009. On January 28, agency officials certified and approved the salary determinations for Kim’s promotion.

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GEICO's Good Stuff

DHS Hoping to Acquire iPhones and Tablets to ID Bomber Fingerprints

Biometric iPhones could help the Homeland Security Department expedite the identification of suspects in bombings and other disasters.

DHS is looking for iPhones to better capture fingerprints, facial images and written descriptions to aid in the identification of persons of interests, according to a market survey released Friday. The department is also looking to acquire iPads and Windows-based tablets.

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Dollars & Sense

Ideas for Maximizing your Social Security Benefit, Part 1

Every week I enjoy helping clients or folks in my classes understand the various federal retirement options they have. Whenever possible, I try to show them ways they can maximize their benefits.  Many times, I can help federal employees save or gain thousands of dollars in retirement income simply by showing them their options and walking them through their own unique scenarios.

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