Employees who are "exempt from furlough" are those whose jobs aren't funded by annual appropriations. "Employees performing those functions will generally continue to be governed by the normal pay, leave, and other civil service rules." Contractors who work with t...
and their exit threatens to blow a hole in the state’s finances. California lost about $343 million in tax revenue during 2021 due to out-migration… Combine that with the fact that more jobs can be done from anywhere, and Americans on average are wealthier than ever. As a result, more...
People in government are not opposed to clean and safe parks, of course, but they often make decisions on the basis of political factors (rewarding certain contractors, providing patronage jobs, etc). The net result is that government involvement is a bad recipe for higher costs and poor perfo...
Jaime Franchi / Long Island Contractors’ Association Jaime Franchi joined LICA in 2022 as director of communications and government relations. She is an award-winning communications professional with experience in government, investigative journalism and media relations. Before joining LICA...
widening the definition of the government workforce just as our understanding of work has changed, the workforce is also undergoing a transformation. in the past, governments largely accomplished their missions through the work of permanent employees, complemented by contractors. today, governments are ...
We can’t solve the problems here, but we’ll try see how the best and the brightest can rebuild in order to do their jobs better. Our issue of the week looks at GSA… that conferences… what happens now… and what it means for contractors…Larry Allen has been following GSA for deca...
As for public contracting, opponents of Prop 16 argue that introducing affirmative action will cost taxpayers “BILLIONS of dollars,” because the state will reject lowest qualified bidders and in order to choose higher-priced minority- and women-owned contractors. If saving taxpayer dollars is more...
The deal, which called for technology to power the site's new information kiosks and a people-finding mobile app, marked the first prime contract for INADEV. The company's history working as a subcontractor with larger government contractors, likeLockheed Martin—introduced to INADEV by an indus...
This one amused me: “Prohibit use of outside contractors to get round ban [on recruitment].” After leaving the Royal Navy I emigrated to Australia and after a period in industry reckoned I had learned enough to set up as a consultant. After joining a firm of consultants I could not be...
And government contractors made a killing by waging endless wars abroad. The president became more imperial. Although the Constitution invests the President with very specific, limited powers, in recent years, American presidents have claimed the power to completely and almost unilaterally alter the ...