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SOURCE: www.apwu.org APWU President Cliff Guffey has summoned the union’s Rank and File Bargaining Advisory Committee to Washington, DC for an update on contract negotiations, but he was quick to point out that no tentative agreement has been reached and [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.whitehouse.gov EXECUTIVE ORDER RECRUITING AND HIRING STUDENTS AND RECENT GRADUATES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 3301 and 3302 of title 5, United [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.afge.org Decision strikes down Defense Department attempt to limit federal employee appeals rights WASHINGTON – The American Federation of Government Employees applauds yesterday’s decision by the Merit Systems Protection Board upholding the appeals rights of federal employees who hold [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.hhs.gov States also cut red tape and simplified enrollment process HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today awarded $206 million to 15 states for making significant progress in enrolling uninsured children in Medicaid.  This year’s bonuses are more than double the [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.defense.gov American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2010 – The deadline for eligible servicemembers, veterans and their beneficiaries to apply for Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay has been extended to March 4, Defense Department officials announced today. The [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.whitehouse.gov On November 29, 2010, I proposed a two-year freeze in the pay of civilian Federal employees as the first of a number of difficult actions required to put our Nation on a sound fiscal footing. As I said [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.harkin.senate.gov WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement after today’s announcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of new Affordable Care Act regulations to bring [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.ins.state.ny.us PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that BRIAN H. MADDEN, the former president and co-founder of Liberty Title Agency, LLC (“Liberty Title”), one of the largest independently owned title [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.ins.state.ny.us It’s always important to keep your mailing address updated, especially when it comes to insurance. That’s one lesson that was driven home when a New York City man almost lost his life insurance policy after a series of [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.www.ins.state.ny.us Three Citigroup-affiliated insurance agencies have paid a $2,000,000 fine to New York to resolve insurance law violations committed from 2003 to 2007, New York State Insurance Superintendent James J. Wrynn announced today. An Insurance Department examination of Citicorp [...] Read More