Pay & Benefits
Not-so-special pay
Federal IT workers learned this month that special salary rates become less and less special each year.
Pay & Benefits
Social Security Administration settles race discrimination suit
The Social Security Administration agreed Friday to pay $7.75 million to settle a discrimination suit lodged by 2,200 black male employees in 1995.
Pay & Benefits
OPM, union settle special rates pay case for $173 million
After more than 19 years of legal wrangling and tense negotiations with the National Treasury Employees Union, the federal government has agreed to pay more than $173 million to settle a back pay case that affects at least 212,000 current and former “special rate” employees.
Pay & Benefits
Domestic partners not eligible for long-term care benefit
For now, domestic partners of federal employees are not eligible for the new long-term health insurance benefit, although the Office of Personnel Management may revisit the issue in the future.
Pay & Benefits
Postal inspector general criticizes executive awards program
For two consecutive years, every eligible executive in the Postal Inspection Service received a cash payout from its executive awards program, according to an inspector general's audit.
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