Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits and Outrages hnkards’ Rights Suppose you have an employee who habitually reports to work falling down drunk and remains in a sodden state throughout the day. Can you fire hjm? Not if...
...That ought to do the job...
...Price] had really given $25,000 for a bank charter, he’d have got the bank charter.’ ” Our Ingenious Postal Service If you haven’t felt like gnashing your teeth lately, we have just the thing for you in this report from The Washington Star: “The financially hard-pressed US...
...A Capitol Idea We recently complained that reporters hadn’t read the Humphrey-Hawkins bill they mentioned so often in their accounts of the campaign...
...The case involved a grade GS-9 Internal Revenue Service revenue officer in IRS’s Manhattan office who was demoted to a GS-7 tax examiner job because of excessive drinking...
...We had the foresight not to publish it...
...Right from the Start We are awarding the first prize in our Who Took Jimmy Carter Seriously First contest to James M. Perry, whose long story entitled “Don’t Laugh at Jimmy Carter” was published in The National Observer on May 3, 1975...
...The arbitrator recommended the demotion be set aside and the employe receive back pay for the resultant loss of earnins...
...Augustus Hawkins, the bill’s co-sponsor, complained in a letter to me Washingion Post that Von Hoffman had described an earlier version of the bill, not the one presently before Congress...
...Postal SeMce has a surprise source of revenue-it auctions off millions of parcels damaged by machines at its new, mechanized bulk mail centers...
...Rather, the union contended +at IRS itself was at fault...
...One subcommittee source said a firm that loses a big batch of parcels to damage could find its own merchandise being sold at cut-rate prices by a competitor who bought it at bargain auction rates...
...The House postal facilities subcommittee is asking the Postal Service just how much it gets from the sales and how the bid prices compare with the value of the merchandise...
...but if it doesn’t, this bill creates a national network of things called ‘local planning councils,’ ‘community public service works reservoirs,’ and ‘Job Guarantee Offices,’ each with its own ‘Job Guarantee Officer.’ There is also a beast called the ‘Standby Job Corps,’ after which comes a ‘National Institute for Full Employment.’ Staff salaries and per-diem expenses for the consultants and advisors are spelled out in some detail, although nothing else is...
...Sales in 13 postal auction centers around the country took in $1.4 million during fiscal 1975...
...The employe’s union, the National Treasury Employes Union, did not disagree that he had a history of alcoholism...
...Moore’s lawyer, who gravely told the jurors: “ ‘The biggest proof that his [extortion] didn’t happen is everybody knows that if that man [Mr...
...Well, Nicholas Von Hoffman did, and found: “It tackles the problem of joblessness by mandating the the United States Employment Service change its name to the United States Full Employment Service...
...Thinking Like a West Virginia Lawyer Ben Franklin of The New York i’Trnes, observing that the recent trial of Governor Arch Moore of West Virginia “offered insights into politics in this corruption-ridden state,” wrote: “One of them came in an impassioned closing statement to the jury yesterday by Stanley E. Preiser, Mr...
...Second price goes to Don Winter, a former reporter for The Atlanta Journal, who brought us a similar article later that month...
...Not if you’re in the federal government, according to this report by Joseph Young in The Washington Star: “Ap arbitrator has decided that adverse action cannot be taken against federal workers with drinking problems if their agencies have not established programs to detect and treat alcoholism among their employees...
Vol. 8 • June 1976 • No. 4
