No Pay Raises for DoD Employees With Unsatisfactory Ratings Under Proposed Legislation
A bill introduced this week would prohibit Dept. of Defense employees who receive an unsatisfactory rating from receiving a salary increase.
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Statement from John Berry on Federal Pay
OPM Director John Berry made a statement at the recent Congressional hearing on federal employee pay. The enclosed article contains his complete statement from the hearing.
Pay Freeze Misses Federal Employees Whose Unions Will Bargain Pay
The Author discusses the Federal pay freeze statute, the Obama Executive Order and implementing memo as well as OPM’s guidance. He asks whether the apparent exclusion from a pay freeze for those who are going to bargain pay is intentional or otherwise. Nowhere in the law is there a limit or in any of the paper, instructions to Agency management to hold the pay line with the unions. Read it for yourself and decide whether the President’s union friends got a pass.
Executive Order on Federal Pay Adjustments
The President has issued an executive order implementing the 2011 federal pay rates.
President Issues Memo Explaining Pay Freeze
President Obama has issued a memo explaining the rationale for a federal pay freeze and advising agency heads with discretion on federal pay “should not provide any upward adjustments in Federal employees’ pay schedules or rates during the two-year period covered by the statutory pay freeze.”
Federal Employee Pay Freeze: A Bill Clinton “Flashback?”
The author offers comments by a number of agency and union members of the National Council on Federal Labor Management Relations but finds no mention of the pre-decisional involvement of Federal employees or their unions in the decision to freeze Federal employee pay. Didn’t Executive Order 13522 require that? Is this a Bill Clinton flashback? You decide.
Pay, Benefits, and the Ups and Downs for the Federal Community: Most Intriguing Topics for 2009
Which topics are of the most interest to readers? Here are the top 25 articles from the FedSmith site in 2009.
Letter from Pres. Obama Declaring National Emergency Exists and 2% Federal Pay Raise
Here is the text of a letter from President Obama to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate transmitting an alternative plan for pay increases for civilian Federal employees covered by the General Schedule (GS) and certain other pay systems in January 2010.
Your 2010 Pay Raise: 2%, 2.9% or 3.4%?
Will the 2010 average federal pay raise be 2%, 2.9% or 3.4%? All three figures are being used in Congress by different committees. Here is an update on the status of the 2010 pay increase.
Pay Parity and Your 2010 Pay Raise
Congress says it approves the idea of pay parity between federal employees and military personnel but doesn’t indicate how much should be approved for a possible pay raise in 2010. Will federal employees be asked to take a lower raise in the midst of rising unemployment and low inflation? Also, federal retirees are on track to go without a COLA increase.
