Pay & Benefits
Feds Can Sign Up for a COVID-19 Hazard Pay Lawsuit Now
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Pay & Benefits
Ahuja Appoints Former OPM Director to Oversee the Federal Blue Collar Job Panel
Janice Lachance will chair an advisory committee governing the Federal Wage System, a pay scale that has long been criticized by employee groups for its outdated map of locality pay areas.
Pay & Benefits
Biden Issues Executive Order Finalizing Average 2.7% Pay Raise for Feds
Although the raise isn’t as much as many federal employee groups had hoped for, it restores civilian-military pay parity.
Pay & Benefits
A New Addition to Locality Pay Areas, and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Pay & Benefits
Pay Agent Adds One New County to Locality Pay Area, Encourages ‘Fresh’ Look at Other Issues
Although the president’s pay agent declined to waive the requirement that there be at least 2,500 General Schedule employees in a region to be eligible for a locality pay area, it noted that Carroll County, Illinois, has recently met the requirement anyway.
Workforce
Compromise Defense Policy Bill Repeals Pentagon’s Two-Year Probationary Period, Grants Feds Bereavement Leave
Left out of the final bill was a provision that would align the General Schedule and Federal Wage System locality pay maps.
Pay & Benefits
TSP Funds Take a Hit Amid New COVID Concerns, and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Pay & Benefits
GAO: Key Locality Pay Decisions Stalled by Lack of Biden Appointees
Although the Federal Salary Council could clear up years of disagreements that cropped up during the Trump administration, President Biden has thus far failed to appoint any members to the advisory body.
Pay & Benefits
A Bill to Resolve Prison Workers' Locality Pay Woes, and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Pay & Benefits
Provisions Easing Firefighter Shift Trades and Equalizing Locality Pay Make It Into Major Defense Bill
The odds of two key priorities of federal employee unions becoming law shot up as they were attached to the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.
Pay & Benefits
OPM Issues Guidance on Telework, Pay and Travel As Feds Return to Offices
The 38-page document assists agencies with short- and long-term planning.
Pay & Benefits
No New Locality Pay Areas in 2022
The president’s pay agent declined to authorize a number of recommended changes to existing locality pay areas, overruling a federal advisory board.
Pay & Benefits
Salary Council: Federal Workers Make 23% Less than Private Sector Counterparts
The advisory council on federal compensation recommended that Carroll County, Ill., be added to the Davenport-Moline, Iowa-Ill., locality pay area.
Pay & Benefits
Federal Advisory Group Finds Feds Are Paid 26.71% Less than Private Sector Counterparts
In their annual report, members of the Federal Salary Council recommend updates to datasets used in determining a region’s eligibility to become a locality pay area.
Pay & Benefits
Pay Agent Approves New Locality Pay Area, Calls for Legislative Changes to All Federal Pay
Federal workers Des Moines, Iowa, and Imperial County, California, will be the next in line to receive raises in the form of locality pay, likely beginning in 2021.
Management
Federal Staffing Problems Are Inextricably Linked to Pay Problems
When workforce issues impede an agency’s service to the public, it’s more than a line in the budget.
Pay & Benefits
Trump Administration Prepares 'Holistic' Review to Overhaul Federal Employee Compensation
A contractor will examine pay issues, as well as work-life balance and meaningfulness of work.
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