Current news and events impacting the federal workforce, both current federal employees and federal retirees.
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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.”
President Obama has signed the bill that continues funding of the federal government through March 4th and institutes the two-year federal pay freeze.
Will CSRS employees get a tax break with the reduction in the Social Security tax that was recently announced? What about CSRS offset employees? How will it impact FERS employees? Here are some answers.
The Senate and House have approved a bill that would fund the federal government through March 4th and freeze federal employee pay increases for two years.
Following President Obama’s recent proposal for a two-year pay freeze for all civilian federal workers, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced a pay freeze for Department of Energy contractor employees.
Locality pay extensions; government-wide categories of non-general schedule employees
The President’s Pay Agent has decided to extend the 2011 locality payments to the same Governmentwide and single-agency categories of employees authorized to receive the 2010 locality payments. If a pay freeze is enacted for 2011, these employees will be entitled to continue to receive locality payments at the 2010 level. Here is the OPM announcement.
Every year various agencies update numbers (generally dollar amounts) for benefits that impact federal employees and retirees. Not every agency has issued all their 2011 updates, but many of them have. Here are some of the more important financial numbers for the federal workforce in 2011.
