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The Federal Position Classification System: A Case Study for Updating an Archaic Personnel Management System
Get PDFThe ability of the federal position classification system to keep pace with the evolving complexity and type of federal work has been in doubt for many years. Nearly 30 percent of federal occupations have not been updated since 1990, and many more have not been updated since the 1970s. This study will explore the federal position classification system and evaluate how it attracts quality candidates, compete with the private sector and accurately classify positions. Relevant literature, surveys completed by stakeholders and subject matter experts, and key informant interviews will be used to capture the state and characteristics of the federal position classification system. The research method approach will be adapted to obtain the perspective and experience for the validity of the outcome. The study is intended to demonstrate to stakeholders whether the federal position classification system needs to be revised and updated and whether to recommend the necessity to hire dedicated classification specialists to review, update, and maintain the position classification standards
Racial & Identity Profiling Advisory Board Annual Report 2020
Get PDFCalifornia’s Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board (Board) is pleased to release its Third Annual Report. The Board was created by the Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015 (RIPA) to shepherd data collection and provide public reports with the ultimate objective to eliminate racial and identity profiling and improve and understand diversity in law enforcement through training, education, and outreach. For the first time, the Board’s report includes an analysis of the stop data collected under RIPA, which requires nearly all California law enforcement agencies to submit demographic data on all detentions and searches. This report also provides recommendations that law enforcement can incorporate to enhance their policies, procedures, and trainings on topics that intersect with bias and racial and identity profiling. This report provides the Board’s recommendations for next steps for all stakeholders – advocacy groups, community members, law enforcement, and policymakers – who can collectively advance the goals of RIPA. In rendering these recommendations, the Board hopes to further carry out its mission to eliminate racial and identity profiling and improve law enforcement and community relations
Understanding and implementing child participation: Lessons from the Global South
No full textThis article provides a theoretical framework to the Special Issue by examining the concept of child participation and the specific challenges for its application in the Global South. The Special Issue is a continuation of the editors’ book International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation: From Social Exclusion to Child-inclusive Policies (Oxford University Press, 2015) that included studies mostly focused on participatory rights in the Global North. The individual articles that comprise the Special Issue complete this investigation by presenting empirical findings on child and youth participation in countries of the Global South, including Namibia, Ghana, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iraq, India, Mexico, South Africa, China and Brazil. The studies examine participatory rights in multiple contexts ranging from personal challenges such as familial status and migration, through local community changes, to global discourse relating to international children’s rights.
This is the opening article of the Special Issue Child and Youth Participation in Decision-Making: Experiences from Developing Countries of which Benedetta Faedi Duramy has been the Guest-Editor (with Tali Gal). The Special Issue includes fascinating pieces on child participation from Namibia, Ghana, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iraq, India, Mexico, South Africa, China and Brazil. Both the article and the Special Issue can be also accessed here https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/children-and-youth-services-review/special-issue/10D1DD4LRS
Salce v. Cardell
Get PDFWhether either party violated the in terrorem clause as stated in both the trust and last will and testament
Video Interview: Richard Rothstein
No full textThe Editorial Board of the GGU Tax & Estate Planning Review had originally planned for this interview to serve as the formal launch event of the Journal back in March of 2020. It goes without saying that COVID-19 got in the way of those plans. Thankfully, Submissions Editor Steven Reading was able to connect with Mr. Rothstein via videoconference. What follows is the recording of that conversation
2019 Environmental Law and Justice Clinic Report
Get PDFReport on the recent activities of the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic
#MeToo and the Pursuit of Women\u27s International Human Rights
Get PDFIN THE PAST YEAR, high profile cases and the ensuing #MeToo movement have raised much attention on issues surrounding gender discrimination, violence against women, and sexual harassment in the workplace. In the United States, allegations of sexual assault and harassment spawned the deposition or resignation of prominent figures in the entertainment, media, dining, and business industries following the onset of the #MeToo social media movement.\u27 In the rest of the world, many people also embraced the online crusade by sharing the hashtag millions of times or creating their own versions of it. Feminists and scholars have since attempted to keep pace with the sequence of incidents, grasp the reasoning for the present occurrence of such a reckoning with issues surrounding gender-based violence at this point in time, and envisage more inclusive processes for all women. Contrary to the widespread discussion that mostly focuses on domestic issues, this Article offers an international perspective on the challenges raised by #MeToo by surveying a sample of countries that resonated the most with the movement-Britain, India, and Sweden- and other countries that experienced a more conflicted reaction- Japan, France, and Italy.
This Article proceeds in three parts. Part I recaps some of the main incidents that triggered the #MeToo social media campaign in the United States. The discussion focuses on the global impact of the movement by surveying the countries mentioned above that have been most receptive and the others that showed a more reticent reaction. Part II explores why #MeToo blew up only recently at the domestic level, and what factors contributed to its international development. Finally, Part III recommends a holistic human rights-based approach to sexual assault and harassment to ensure that the #MeToo\u27s impetus will not fade without having first attained long-lasting change for all women
CERCLA Cleanup 2020.04.09 Response from EPA to ELJC Letter Dated Dec. 2019
Get PDFELJC’s Dec. 13, 2019 letter commented on EPA’s November 15 letter to the Navy regarding the Navy\u27s draft evaluation of radiological soil remediation goals at HPNS. This is EPA’s response to the four concerns identified in that letter: consideration of the risk posed by homegrown produce; lack of health based support for remediation goal for radium-226; retesting’s use of methods to adequately detect pollution; and, the Navy’s repeated unfounded statements to the public that the remediation goals are protective