Volume IV, Issue 3 (Summer 2010)

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Volume IV, Issue 3 (Summer 2010)

  • SEC Receives Poor Marks in 2010 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey

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    The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently released the results of its 2010 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS), which was previously known as the Federal Human Capital Survey. According to OPM, the FEVS has been updated to gather more useful data that will help improve the federal workplace and increase productivity. OPM has also announced that the survey, previously conducted every two years, will now be conducted annually.

  • ABCs of SEC's New Performance Management System

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    The SEC launched its new pay for performance system on July 1, 2010 in the Division of Enforcement and the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations. At the same time, SEC management also announced its intention to implement this new system throughout the rest of the agency over the course of the next year. Many of you have been directed to execute new “Performance Work Plans” and “Individual Development Plans” as part of this rollout. We know that employees have questions about these plans, and the Union’s position on the SEC’s new system.

  • Update on OCIE Self-Assessment

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    Since his appointment as the new Director of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, Carlo di Florio has embarked upon an ambitious agenda to review the examination program from top to bottom, with an eye towards proposing changes to OCIE’s structure. As part of that process, he appointed several Task Forces comprised of OCIE senior managers to assess various components of the examination program and make recommendations for changes. He also invited all OCIE employees to submit their ideas and recommendations for improvements.

  • Chapter 293 Works Interviews OCIE Director Carlo di Florio

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    New Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations Director Carlo di Florio recently took some time out of his busy schedule to answer a few questions for Chapter 293 Works:

    Chapter 293 Works: Now that you have been at the SEC for a few months, can you share with us some of your initial thoughts about government service, and in particular about leading the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations?

  • Meet a Member: BRO Staff Accountant Ray Titus -- On a Mission to Help Haitians

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    Ray Titus in the Dominican Republic with Rice for Distribution

    Raymond Titus, a staff accountant in the SEC’s Boston Regional Office, recently returned from an outreach program to help Haitian families who work in the sugarcane industry in the Dominican Republic. This was his fourth trip to help Haitian migrants living there.

  • Mending in Miami: Appointment of Eric Bustillo

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    MIRO Steward Terry Tennant, MIRO Director Eric Bustillo and Chapter 293 President Greg Gilman

    During the years prior to 2010, the relationship between the front line staff and senior management at the Miami Regional Office had become strained. At MIRO, many of the staff believe that for too long, they were managed through intimidation and cronyism, rather than through respect and cooperation. This management approach had a negative impact upon employee morale, which was reflected in the poor scores that MIRO management received in the 2008 Federal Human Capital Survey.

  • Disingenuous Claims about Federal Pay

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    A recent report by the Cato Institute claims that federal employees make 26% more than private sector employees, and calls for a freeze or cut in federal wages. Some have seized on this issue, seeking an immediate federal pay freeze. Fortunately, recent efforts to freeze federal pay were defeated.