Homeland Security Employees Feeling the Blues
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The employees have spoken. What they have said about job satisfaction has gratified four relatively small federal agencies and sent a jolt through the Department of Homeland Security, which scored last or almost last in job satisfaction, leadership and workplace performance.
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Tom Ridge, the nation&#39;s first secretary of homeland security, resigned Tuesday, leaving behind a mixed record. Although the nation is undeniably safer for the work of his agency
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Many members of Congress are frustrated by the Department of Homeland Security's performance as it nears the fourth anniversary of its launch. The department's woes include contracting and budget problems, a sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina, turnover in senior ranks and a workforce that gives...
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The violence unleashed at a mental health office in New York reminded other professionals of the dangers inherent in a career spent helping people.
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Noting the toll of travel stress, many companies are beginning to recognize the limits of what employees will put up with.
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The travails of passengers on a stranded flight showed how strained the system is at times when unpredictable factors like bad weather bring extra stress.
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Take it from Michael Chertoff: The Homeland Security Department is no &quot;24.&quot; Chertoff, the department&#039;s secretary, said Friday he doesn&#039;t have a way-cool, state-of-the-art Counter Terrorist Unit like the one on the Fox TV show. Bad guys aren&#039;t foiled on an hourly basis. And not everybody is romantically involved with co-workers.
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Staff are to receive counselling to help them cope with the ordeal, which involved the families of two employees being held hostage for over 24 hours.
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The selection of Bernard B. Kerik as the new secretary of homeland security may signal sweeping changes at a sprawling new department still struggling to find its place.
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The homeland security chief on Sunday scolded the Senate for failing to pass an immigration bill and said it will be difficult for the government to crack down on illegal workers.
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For US Airways employees, anxiety intensifies as the carrier takes its second dip into bankruptcy restructuring in two years.
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WASHINGTON -- Contractors who have worked in Iraq are returning home with the same kinds of combat-related mental health problems that afflict US military personnel, according to contractors, industry officials, and mental health specialists.
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They have job duties taken away, so they are marginalized in the office. They get stripped of their security clearances, so they can't work. They are blacklisted, so they can't find employment. They are reassigned to new locations, so they have to choose between moving or losing their jobs.
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Sluggish pace of development and deployment has left big holes in checkpoint security, officials say.
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NEW YORK -- At the sad tolling of bells and a rabbi's hopeful reading, President Bush and a sea of firefighters and police officers silently bowed their heads Monday to mark the moments five years ago when terrorists pierced the nation's defenses.
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Overnight guards and scientists at the American Museum of Natural History often feel glassy eyes on them.
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Many US soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer mental health problems, a study shows.