Whistleblower law protects most Executive Branch employees from workplace reprisal for making certain disclosures of wrongdoing. Whistleblower retaliation can be found if an agency takes or fails to take certain personnel actions because of a protected disclosure, or if it even threatens to take or fail to take such an action.
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The 1970 Postal Reorganization Act, which set up the USPS as an independent self-funding entity, authorized collective bargaining on wages and working conditions generally under laws applying to the private sector, including binding arbitration. Postal workers, like other federal employees, are barred from striking, however.
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Generally, there are two types of furloughs. In a “save money” furlough, typically a budgetary shortfall causes an agency to take certain cost-saving steps, including putting employees on unpaid furlough. In a “shutdown” furlough, an agency has no authority to spend money, which can happen if an agency’s appropriations are not renewed on schedule.
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