Sentences with phrase «former agency employees»

EPA career staffers, former agency employees and environmentalists view the changes as a troubling sign of how the new administration plans to deal with climate change policies and the agency's workforce.

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On June 8, as the investigation proceeded, the incident response team shared with relevant agencies that there was a high degree of confidence that OPM systems containing information related to the background investigations of current, former, and prospective Federal government employees, and those for whom a federal background investigation was conducted, may have been exfiltrated.

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents more than 670,000 workers in the executive branch, took a swing at the agency in ink: «We believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees,» he wrote in the letter dated Thursday, which Fortune Employees, a union that represents more than 670,000 workers in the executive branch, took a swing at the agency in ink: «We believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees,» he wrote in the letter dated Thursday, which Fortune employees,» he wrote in the letter dated Thursday, which Fortune obtained.

According to former employees, Facebook, Google and Twitter all worry that if they are public about their true level of cooperation with Western law enforcement agencies, they will face endless demands for similar action from countries around the world.

VieVu, founded in 2007 by ex-Seattle police officer and former Taser employee Steve Ward, has about 4,000 law enforcement agencies in 17 countries using its body cameras and digital video storage.

Earlier this month, former technical contractor for the National Security Agency and ex-CIA employee Edward Snowden made public classified information that the U.S. government has had «direct access» to the servers of tech giants including Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft.

«This track record likely reflects his disturbing decision to close the environmental enforcement unit in his office while establishing a new litigation team to challenge EPA and other federal agencies,» the former EPA employees wrote in the letter, which was sent by the Environmental Integrity Project to all U.S. Senators.

A whistleblower from the Internet Research Agency, former employee Alan Baskaev, told Russia's TV Rain last October that the troll farm had created a fake Hillary Clinton porn video.

The state Department of Financial Services has fined Goldman Sachs Group Inc. $ 50 million for failing to properly supervise a former employee whom the agency had accused of stealing and sharing confidential regulatory materials.

The DEC has become a Ground Zero in the ongoing battle between the governor and the public employee unions over layoffs ever since its former commissioner, Pete Grannis, was fired for insubordination after the leaking of a memo he wrote warning further cuts at the agency would render it unable to fulfill its core missions.

Former President of the agency Ken Adams now is in charge of Empire State Development and there is an employee of ESD who is on their board that the vote was fixed.

New York's Public Officers Law bans former government officials from appearing before the state agencies where they worked for two years in a paid capacity, and also says state employees can not ever practice, appear before or ever even «communicate» with those agencies on matters over which they were «directly concerned» during their state employment, or which were under their «active consideration.»

The state Public Officers Law that covers lobbying says no former public official «who has served as an officer or any employee in the executive chamber of the governor shall within a period of two years after termination of such services appear or practice before any state agency.»

A former director of operations for the state department of corrections was arraigned on an indictment that charges him with sexually harassing and forcibly touching a male employee at the agency.

The EFCC subsequently received a petition alleging that over N50bn from the Employee Compensation Scheme fund, paid by Ministries, Departments and Agencies and private companies as well as another N18bn, being the contribution of the Federal Government as take - off grant to the NSITF, was mismanaged and diverted into the personal accounts of Olojeme and Umar Abubakar, a former Managing Director of the NSITF.

A former director of operations for the state department of corrections was arraigned on an indictment Tuesday that charges him with sexually harassing and forcibly touching a male employee at the agency.

None of the agencies, or their employees, appear to be targets of the wide - ranging investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which brought charges last fall against former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros, top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco, and several private sector executives.

Former state officers and employees are broadly prohibited from lobbying, or seeking contracts from their former agencies for two years after they leave state seFormer state officers and employees are broadly prohibited from lobbying, or seeking contracts from their former agencies for two years after they leave state seformer agencies for two years after they leave state service.

Heather McNeill, a former county OEM employee, joined Nassau's emergency agency as a secretary and, she testified, later was moved up — but only to make room for someone else to take the secretarial job.

The state's affordable housing agency is withholding documents of a former employee's work hours citing an ongoing investigation.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

Last week, several current and former state employees said Percoco sent them a blistering email demanding that the younger Aiello receive a 10 percent raise following a 2015 transfer to Cuomo's office from the state Homes and Community Renewal agency.

Three former Yahoo employees and another unidentified person told the news agency that the US government pushed Yahoo to search for a string of letters, numbers or other characters.

The team developed a model that was informed by not only the 2014 Sony attack, but also the theft of security clearance — related information for 21.5 million current and former government employees from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, allegedly carried out by Chinese nationals in 2014 and 2015, and the stealing of electronic files from the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential election that the Central Intelligence Agency attributed to the Russian government.

Bert Smith, a co-author on the new study and a former employee of Chesapeake who now works as a consultant, says he initially approached the U.S. Geological Survey with the company's data set, but the agency declined.

We also do not accept any former employees («translators») of such agencies, due to unfortunate legacy of these systems.

The biopic from director Oliver Stone tells the story of the former CIA employee Edward Snowen (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) who became a whistleblower when he leaked classified information about the NSA to the media that revealed the agency was spying on unknowing citizens of the United States.

A former HUD employee says she was demoted after refusing to comply with a request from the acting agency head that she «find money» to bankroll costly remodeling for Carson's office.

Two federal agencies and the D.C. Office of the Inspector General are investigating the District's public school system following revelations of inflated graduation rates, according to a current and a former D.C. government employee with direct knowledge of the probe.

Public employees also must wait two years before doing the same work as a contractor for their former public agency.

The Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act) requires Federal agencies to keep their employees, former employees, and applicants for employment informed of their antidiscrimination and whistleblower protections; post quarterly statistics on their websites; and train all employees regarding the rights and remedies to which they are entitled under the law.

Former employees often have questions about whether they can represent new employers before DOT or other Government agencies.

The WPEA requires that any nondisclosure policy, form or agreement (NDA) of the Government (with current or former Federal employees) include the statement copied below and provides that NDA's executed without the language may still be enforced as long as agencies provide employees notice of the statement.

I am committed to maintaining DOT's role as a Federal agency that respects the rights of current and former Federal employees and applicants for employment to raise legitimate concerns without fear of retaliation.

The Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act) requires Federal agencies to keep their employees, former employees, and applicants for employment informed of their antidiscrimination and whistleblower protections; post quarterly statistics on their Web sites; and train all employees regarding the rights and remedies to which they are entitled under the law.

Hackers, malicious former employees, even accidental file sharing have cost authors, agencies, and publishing houses their livelihoods as these e-books find their way onto websites that allow consumers with an e-reader device to obtain the material illegally.

Shortly after, May applied for work through a temp agency and by chance was sent to work in the trust department of the former Bexar County National Bank when one of its employees went on maternity leave.

I started getting texts, tweets and emails about 49 former NASA employees who were taking the agency to task for publishing information on climate change — something they didn't politically agree with.

Two points: 1) An update on the Lamar Smith affair (which I continue to regard as a politically motivated witchhunt): «About 600 scientists and engineers, including former employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have signed on to letters urging the head of that agency, Kathryn Sullivan, to push back against political interference in science.

Nevertheless, insisting that «climate chaos» was real, former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson wailed that her agency would need at least 240,000 new EPA employees (each making some $ 100,000 per year, plus benefits) that she said would be needed just to administer new carbon dioxide regulations — and control nearly everything Americans make, drive, ship and do!

Scott Pruitt told EPA employees Tuesday that he's committed to protecting the environment and upholding the agency's core mission, but he also signaled that major changes are ahead as he begins to dismantle much of former President Obama's climate change agenda.

Not to deride any current / former US Government employees here, but is it really any surprise that a government agency could be staffed with people who really don't care to get it right?

A group of 49 former NASA employees from Johnson Space Center have written a letter to NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, requesting that the space agency refrain from «unproven and unsubstantiated remarks» regarding how human activities are causing global climate change.

Ironically, a former employee of the UK weather office Hubert Lamb left that agency to set up the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia because he could not get support for his attempt to improve forecasting by understanding past weather patterns.

Many jumped to the defense of Dr. John Bates, the former NOAA employee who waited until he retired to disclose malfeasance in the science and management at that agency.

The group received important support from many individuals and agencies, particularly the U.S. Forest Service's Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) team and former Santa Barbara County Flood Control District employee Candice Constantine.

Former Environmental Protection Agency employees spoke in favor of the plan, or of improving it.

Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Many jumped to the defense of Dr. John Bates, the former NOAA employee who waited until he retired to disclose malfeasance in the science and management at that agency.

Now, after devoting her career to academia, the former Oregon State University professor will become the first woman to lead the agency of roughly 12,500 employees that provides weather and climate forecasting, monitors atmospheric data, manages marine fisheries and mammals, and maps and charts all U.S. waters.

The suit also alleges that Buchanan's representation of Wallace before an FTC administrative law judge was a violation of the Ethics in Government Act, which bars former government employees from trying to influence federal agencies in matters in which they personally participated.