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Layoff. A layoff [1] or downsizing is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees (collective layoff) [2] for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing (reducing the size of) an organization. Originally, layoff referred exclusively to a temporary ...
The Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (commonly called the Vacancies Act) ( 5 U.S.C. § 3345 et seq. [1]) is a United States federal statute establishing the procedure for filling vacancies in an appointed office of an executive agency of the government before the appointment of a permanent replacement. The Act allows an incoming President ...
For United States federal law, the GAO Human Capital Reform Act of 2004 ( Pub. L. 108–271 (text) (PDF), 118 Stat. 811, enacted July 7, 2004) provides new human capital flexibilities with respect to the Government Accountability Office, and for other purposes. The most visible provision of the law was to change the name of the organization ...
2008–2012 California budget crisis. Furlough at a California Department of Motor Vehicles office in 2009. The U.S. state of California had a budget crisis in which it faced a shortfall of at least $ 11.2 billion, [1] projected to top $40 billion over the 2009–2010 fiscal years. [2]
The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the ...
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is an independent federal agency in the United States created as the successor regulatory agency of the Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB), the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development government-sponsored enterprise mission team, absorbing the powers and regulatory authority of ...
Two-tier system. A two-tier system is a type of payroll system in which one group of workers receives lower wages and/or employee benefits than another. [1] The two-tier system of wages is usually established for one of three reasons: The employer wishes to better compensate more senior and ostensibly more experienced and productive workers ...
United States military pay is money paid to members of the United States Armed Forces. The amount of pay varies according to the member's rank, time in the military, location duty assignment, and by some special skills the member may have. Pay will be largely based on rank, which goes from E-1 to E-9 for enlisted members, O-1 to O-10 for ...