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The National Finance Center is technically deficient, suffers from poor internal and external communications, and provides sub-par customer experience, according to the findings of a new and widely reported study.
Although the new bill from Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) would not entirely solve pay compression, the Senior Executives Association said “any action is better than no action.”
Airport screeners and other Transportation Security Administration employees have received a major pay increase to bring their salaries on par with the rest of the federal civilian workforce.
Bills that would set higher pay for frontline Border Patrol agents, increase hiring, and make a temporary pay raise for federal firefighters battling wildfires are heading for a Senate floor vote.
With the calendar year half over, it's a good time to review your financial life. For people in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHB), open season isn't far off.
In today's Federal Newscast: The Department of Homeland Security will see a change in a key leadership position. The law that governs federal cybersecurity is getting a bipartisan overhaul. And it looks like federal firefighters finally landed a permanent pay raise.
Creating new locality pay areas while larger federal pay problems loom is “akin to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic,” the Senior Executives Association said. The organization is joining with others to call for a proposal from the Biden administration to fix pay compression.
The Department of Veterans Affairs will implement a long-awaited pay raise for its IT and cybersecurity workforce later this month, to bring employees’ salaries closer to what they could earn in the private sector.
The 2023 federal pay raise was the largest civilian employees have seen since 2002, and the largest military raise since 2003. But it's still not keeping up with private sector wage growth.
Four new locality pay areas are close to final, after the Office of Personnel Management proposed rules to implement approved recommendations from the President's Pay Agent and Federal Salary Council.
If the extra hours of annual leave put federal employees over their cap on carryover leave, they’ll have to use that time off — or lose it — by January 2024.
The House and Senate Armed Services Committees each finished their work on their respective versions of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act last week. Both bills include a 5.2% military pay raise, the largest since 2002.
The bill from the GOP-led House Appropriations Committee would effectively reverse forthcoming pay increases for TSA's non-screening workforce, such as air marshals and canine handlers.
The Veterans Health Administration, amid a significant expansion of its health care workforce, is taking steps to ensure prospective hires receive a firm salary offer before accepting a job offer.