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As pandemic guidelines change, the House Oversight and Reform Committee advanced legislation that would require specific workplace safety plans from federal agencies as they prepare to reopen offices.
The Biden administration is expected to propose a 2.7% federal pay raise for civilian employees in 2022, well above the 1% bump workers received this year.
As agencies eye return-to-work strategies, the Office of Personnel Management is planning new guidance on telework and remote work for a post-pandemic world.
Will the office ever look the same once the pandemic is over? One small agency surveyed its employees and supervisors about telework, and here's what they had to say.
Agencies considering long-term implications of a partially remote or hybrid workforce, everything from recruitment and professional development to leased space and locality pay.
A 1% federal pay raise with no additional locality adjustments didn't noticeably accelerate salary compression in 2021. But plenty of GS-15s still bumped up against the arbitrary pay ceiling of $172,500 this year.
A pandemic, economic downturn and months of skepticism didn't change the plans the president issued last February, when he informed Congress of his intention to give most civilian employees a 1% federal pay raise in 2021.
President Donald Trump formalized a 1% across-the-board federal pay raise for civilian employees in 2021 via an executive order, which he signed Thursday night with hours to spare before the start of the new year.
In the President’s Pay Agent’s annual report to Congress released Dec. 17, the three presidentially appointed leaders emphasized the same concerns about the shortcomings of the GS system that many before them have and called on lawmakers to make significant changes.
The Federal Salary Council is not recommending any new areas for 2022. But the council did engage in debate over the future of the federal locality program.
The Trump administration will add Des Moines, Iowa, to its list of locality pay areas, bringing the total to 54. Adding a locality pay area will directly impact 3,100 federal employees, but the move could also have broader effects on the rest of the federal workforce, the Office of Personnel Management said.
Given the choice, would you take a reduced CSRS or FERS annuity later — for life — if it meant you could telework from the geographic location of your choice?
As Congress debates must-pass legislation for 2021, members are leaving many of the big-ticket federal workforce items on the table this year.
The Office of Personnel Management will propose new regulations establishing Des Moines, Iowa, a new brand new locality pay area. The move will impact at least 2,500 employees in the region.