Under federal "use it or lose it" rules, any unspent money employees set aside last year to pay for out-of-pocket health costs, such as prescriptions or co-pays, is forfeited at the end of the year. But a group of senators from states surrounding the Washington, D.C., area, wants ...
Employees are also allowed to use sick leave or paid time off for time needed prior to a birth or placement. That paid parental leave also does not roll over from one 12-month period to another, so employees must use it all or lose it. Because paid parental leave and unpaid family ...
Of course, truth should always be the guide; but where subjectivity must necessarily be an element present throughout one’s descriptive attempt at conveying the nexus between the medical condition, the position description, and the impact one has upon the other, the reluctance to use descriptive...
You could say “put all the records on punch cards and store them in a secret vault”. That’s fine as long as no one needs to use the records ever (see Raiders of the Lost Ark or Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). It’s much less workable when you have 3000-...
“monitor thousands of websites, chat rooms, forums and networks, and alerts you if your personal information is being bought or sold online.” But in order to use this service, users are encouraged to provide bank account and credit card data, passport and medical ID numbers, as well as ...
In its release Wednesday, the agency said that federal intelligence officials are evaluating how fingerprint data could be fraudulently used, and how to prevent such use. “Federal experts believe that, as of now, the ability to misuse fingerprint data is limited,” the release said. ...
If the pulse shape cannot be improved by optimising the detector circuitry the use of a low-pass filter or amplifier of suitable bandwidth can solve the problem. The PMS-400A has a selectable low-pass filter ('Holdoff' function) in the discriminators. Input Pulse has Reflections: Double ...
(the use of a token such as a smart card, along with an access code) was not required to access OPM systems. “We believe that the volume and sensitivity of OPM systems that are operating without an active Authorization represents a material weakness in the internal control structure of the...