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Much of the federal workforce has spent the three months working from home. When work is about what you do, not where you do it, where does that leave locality pay?
If you could work from home, would you work for less? That’s not an option for federal workers, yet, but it could be part of the major upheaval many experts predict as the world comes out of and slowly adjusts to life after the pandemic.
After decades of watching as their annual pay raises shrink, including three consecutive pay freezes, white collar feds may have a reason to be hopeful.
In today's Federal Newscast, the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act mandates all three branches have an assistant secretary for installations, energy, and environment.
Capped pay rates went up in 2020, but salary compression is real for an ever-expanding group of federal employees within certain locality pay areas.
In today's Federal Newscast, new regulations to implement the paid parental leave law for federal employees are in the works.
The president's pay agent, a group composed of the Labor secretary and directors of the Office of Personnel Management and Office of Management and Budget, say the methodology behind federal locality pay doesn't make sense -- and hasn't made sense since its creation.
Actual 2020 raises for civilian employees will range from 2.85% to 3.52%, depending on where they work. Check out the 2020 locality pay rates OPM has released to see where you land.
The executive order implements 3.1% military pay raise on Jan. 1. Civilian employees will see similar increases in their first 2020 paycheck.
White collar federal civil servants are on track to get a 3.1% pay raise next year — the largest in a decade for 1.2 million civil servants.
The Senate has sent two minibus spending bills to the president's desk for his signature. President Donald Trump must sign both by Friday to avoid a second government shutdown in 2019.
A 3.1% federal pay raise is a key feature of one of two "minibus" spending bills, which congressional appropriators unveiled Monday evening. Both the House and Senate are expected to quickly vote on both this week before Friday's funding deadline.
In today's Federal Newscast, two lawmakers want to even the playing field for hourly wage workers and General Schedule employees who work in the same location.
As several states and local governments have raised their minimum wages well past the federal rate of $7.25 in recent years, the Office of Personnel Management said it's received many questions how these changes might impact federal employees.