back pay

The House passed a bill Friday that would guarantee back pay to more than 800,000 federal employees who missed a paycheck Friday.

In today’s Federal Newscast, analysis shows the loss of salary from federal workers, and the loss of income substitution provided through USDA because of the government shutdown will have a significant effect on the nation’s economy.

In today’s Federal Newscast, a review by the Center for American Progress looks at how much money federal workers could lose during the partial government shutdown.

Instead of “essential” and nonessential,” the labels “emergency” and “nonemergency”are being used more to describe which feds have to work in the event of a government shutdown, whether from bad storms or blustering in the White House

In today’s Federal Newscast, a new report from the Office of Management and Budget weighs the costs and benefits of federal regulations.

The Office of Personnel Management is instructing agencies to recredit lost time to federal employees’ leave banks and pay overtime, night differential and premium pay as if the most recent three-day government shutdown never happened.

Several other members have asked the chief administrative officer to withhold their congressional salaries during the government shutdown or have said they’ll donate pay to charity.

In today’s Top Federal Headlines, OPM releases a new calculator to help agency human resources, payroll, finance and shared services offices send out back pay to their employees.

In case of a Friday shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security, the House and Senate have both proposed bills that would give retroactive pay to the agency’s 30,000 furloughed employees.

Veterans Affairs whistleblowers reclaimed their jobs and reputations after supervisors tried to downplay claims of falsified performance reports, a delayed response to rape allegations against a VA employee and low staffing levels at VA medical centers.