Readers Weigh in on Federal Employee Pay Raise for 2015
FedSmith.com readers predicted a 1% proposal by the administration for a federal employee pay raise in 2015. Here are sample comments and forthright opinions.
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FedSmith.com readers predicted a 1% proposal by the administration for a federal employee pay raise in 2015. Here are sample comments and forthright opinions.
President Obama will propose a 1% pay increase for federal employees and military members in his upcoming 2015 budget proposal.
The author says that the chained CPI which the president recently dropped from his budget proposal would actually have been a good thing because of its potential to help with reducing the national debt. He notes that the actual cost to federal retirees from the chained CPI would have been less than the cost of a pizza each month and illustrates its financial impact for federal pensioners.
The president’s budget proposal that is due out next month will not include the chained CPI that was included in his budget blueprint from last year.
The first time around the agency mitigated a proposed removal to a 2-week suspension. This time it mitigated a proposed removal to a demotion. The employee unsuccessfully argued double punishment, but the MSPB and the appeals court say “not.”
Some lawmakers want the president to exclude the chained CPI from his 2015 budget proposal.
The author says that a lot of headlines about the pay of the federal workforce are intentionally misleading, and in some cases, outright falsehoods.
As a general rule, your military service in the Armed Forces of the United States is creditable for federal Civil Service Retirement purposes as long as certain conditions are met. There is an exception, however, which the author explains.
The author says there are a number of good reasons to reform the General Schedule pay system. He offers some detail on why he believes this to be so.
A listing of the federal holidays in 2014