Some Secret Service employees accused of misconduct in the Colombian prostitution scandal are privately contending that their conduct didn’t warrant dismissal because senior managers tolerated similar behavior during official trips, according to people familiar with the employees’ thinking. Read full article > >

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Confidants: Secret Service agents contend misbehavior on trips not unprecedented

Nine Secret Service employees have now resigned or are being forced out because of a Colombia prostitution scandal.

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2 more Secret Service agents resign

The Defense Department, the largest employer of civilian federal workers, has issued a new policy requiring management to promote telework by their employees and to “make every effort to overcome artificial barriers” to off-site working. Read full article > >

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New DoD policy encourages telework

The US Secret Service says three more employees are resigning over the prostitution scandal at an international summit in Colombia last weekend.

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Colombia scandal claims more jobs

The Secret Service on Wednesday announced the departure of three employees connected to a prostitution scandal last week involving members of President Obama’s security detail who were in Cartagena, Colombia. Read full article > >

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Scandal ousts three Secret Service personnel

Before we get to the dancing penises at the National Institutes of Health, let’s begin our discussion with the Secret Service agents’ dalliance with prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia. “ We’re representing the people of the United States ,” President Obama said Sunday when asked about the agents and military personnel who, after a night of heavy drinking, reportedly procured prostitutes at a strip club called the Pleyclub. “And when we travel to another country I expect us to observe the highest standards.” Read full article > >

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Debauchery: An American specialty

The prepared statements for this afternoon’s House hearing on the General Services Administration have been released, with both the investigator whose report brought the controversial 2010 conference to light and the former agency head decrying the cost of the meeting and the behavior of agency employees there. Read full article > >

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Former GSA head, IG decry conference

As could have been expected, the scandal about the exorbitant 2010 General Services Administration conference at a gambling casino just outside Las Vegas has become a political football and federal employees are the ones getting tackled. Read full article > >

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All feds pay the price for GSA scandal

As could have been expected, the scandal about the exorbitant 2010 General Services Administration conference at a gambling casino just outside Las Vegas has become a political football and federal employees are the ones getting tackled. Read full article > >

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All feds pay the price for GSA scandal

An investigation by the inspector general of the General Services Administration found rampant abuse of an employee awards program of the agency’s Pacific Rim region, the same region that has come under fire for spending more than $800,000 on a Las Vegas training conference for 300 employees. Read full article > >

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More details on GSA employee awards store

An investigation by the inspector general of the General Services Administration found rampant abuse of an employee awards program of the agency’s Pacific Rim region, the same region that has come under fire for spending more than $800,000 on a Las Vegas training conference for 300 employees. Read full article > >

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More details on GSA employee awards store

Cause of Action , a nonpartisan government accountability group, has asked 28 federal agencies’ inspectors general offices for information on award coins issued to federal employees. The group has filed a Freedom of Information Act request in response to news that the Pacific Rim region of the General Services Administration spent $6,325 on award coins for employees, given out during a Las Vegas training conference in 2010. Read full article > >

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How much are other agencies spending on award coins? A nonpartisan group wants to know

Bringing pet dogs to work can reduce stress and make the job more satisfying for other employees, a study suggests.

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Taking dog to work ‘cuts stress’

It was a great victory for Karen Golinski and Amy Cunninghis, but other same-sex married couples remain on the sidelines. Golinski is a federal lawyer who has been fighting for years to have Cunninghis, her wife, covered by the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) just as heterosexual spouses are. Read full article > >

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Federal health benefits win for gay couple is limited

The Supreme Court divided along ideological lines Tuesday in ruling that states may not be sued by their employees for illegally denying them medical leave. States are generally immune from lawsuits seeking monetary damages, and the court’s conservative majority said in a 5 to 4 decision that the restriction should apply when the issue at stake is the sick-leave provisions in the federal Family and Medical Leave Act. Read full article > >

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