Congress Approves Federal Employee Pay Freeze
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.
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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.
President Obama has given OPM delegated authority “to providing appropriate workplace accommodations for executive branch civilian employees who are nursing mothers.” What does this mean for your agency?
Were you in the military prior to 2002? Are you going to qualify for Social Security? If you answered “yes” to both questions, I have good news for you! You are going to receive extra earnings credits, which will result in a higher Social Security benefit. Here’s how it works.
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.
Groucho Marx said “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” In a recent arbitration appeal, the FLRA reversed itself over an issue involving an agreement made by political direction with the union in the waning days of the Clinton Administration. The current Chairman, a member when the original case was decided did not dissent then but now gives the union not only a second bite of the apple but, arguably, the whole bushel. Is it a holiday gift? You decide.
The president’s annual salary hasn’t increased for several years, but there are a number of other benefits that come with the job.
While you and I are not, strictly speaking, equipped with internal lie detectors, we can learn many of the common giveaways people display when they’re trying to get away with something. And those can serve as the next best thing.
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.