Visiting Baltimore? Here’s a list of local downtown hotels - many within walking distance! Also, check out the “Visit My Baltimore” web site for a local perspective of our great city!
Are You Ready??? If a disaster struck the Baltimore region, it could be days before major services are restored. Would you be ready if that happened? Click the image above or visitBALTIMORE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL for more info!
Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT)
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations.
Using the training learned in the classroom and during exercises, CERT members can assist others in their neighborhood or workplace following an event when professional responders are not immediately available to help.
CERT members also are encouraged to support emergency response agencies by taking a more active role in emergency preparedness projects in their community.
01/29/2010 - U.S. Navy Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Jean-Jurolien, a native Haitian and a French Creole translator, speaks to a Haitian boy in the pediatric ward aboard the Military Sealift hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) while under way off the coast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 29, 2010. Comfort is in Haiti supporting Operation Unified Response, a multinational, joint-service operation led by the Department of Defense and the U.S. Agency for International Development, to provide humanitarian assistance to Haitians affected by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck the region Jan. 12, 2010. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Matthew Jackson, U.S. Navy/Released)
OPM Responds Immediately to Haiti Earthquake
The OPM Director’s Authorization (.PDF) for special solicitations to support the Haitian earthquake relief effort is now available.
This memorandum includes three pages of frequently asked questions regarding special solicitations for victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
Please get this guidance out to your employees, staff and colleagues as soon as possible.
“As our thoughts and prayers went to this island nation not far from our shores, individual Feds throughout the government asked what they could do. Federal workers have always shown their generosity when disaster strikes, and this time is no different.
To make it easier for Feds to give, I am authorizing department and agency heads to allow a special solicitation of Federal employees at the workplace to support Haiti in its time of extraordinary need.” - OPM Director John Berry
Employees may also make direct contributions to any of the charities involved in supporting earthquake relief.
You can also visit the USAID website for more information:
This unique handbook, written for active federal employees, covers everything you need to know about your federal pay and benefits, such as the different pay schedules, base and locality pay, overtime pay, compensatory time off, relocation and retention bonuses, performance awards, holidays, all the various leave benefits, the federal student loan repayment program, Employee Assistance Programs, Alternative Work Schedules, and more!
This comprehensive handbook explains the very latest information on federal appointments including temporary, term, career and career-conditional appointments, probationary period, performance appraisals, transferring to other federal jobs, reinstatement rights, reductions in force (RIF) rules, the rights of military personnel, employment of Military retirees, Senior Executive Service, workers' compensation, ethics regulations, and more!
Planning for your retirement is getting much harder. That's federal handbooks published this highly detailed handbook - giving you the ins-and-outs of your federal retirement including all the latest federal changes, COLAs, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Liability Insurance, Family Benefits, Survivor Benefits, Social Security, Medicare, TSP, FERS and CSRS, and Retirement Resources. It also gives you a Five-Year Retirement Plan and more!
For online resources and a full range of the latest human resources flexibilities and benefits relating to pandemic influenza, see OPM’s Web site at www.opm.gov/pandemic/.
See Compensation Policy Memorandum (CPM) 2008-09, June 17, 2008, posted on our Web site for a wide range of information on the various HR flexibilities. This information is available at www.opm.gov/oca/compmemo/2008/2008-09.asp .
NEW THIS YEAR: You can also donate case lots of food through a special website set up for our Federal Executive Board Federal Food Drive. Visit: http://FEB.kintera.org.
Click on the dark green bar at the top of the page that saysFED EXEC BOARD VIRTUAL FOOD DRIVE. Your donation by credit card payment for the case lots of food items to be donated will be greatly appreciated. There is a prompt as you check out that will ask what agency you are with.
Welcome! This web site is designed to provide you with as much information as possible about the many programs, events, and initiatives in our Federal Executive Board area. All federal agencies and installations are considered “members” of the FEB.
Richard Howell, Director
410/962-4047
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