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As part of the Federal Drive's continuing expansion of coverage of pay, benefits and working conditions for federal employees. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin introduces a new voice, who listeners will hear from in monthly interviews.
House lawmakers have reintroduced the Equal COLA Act, to equalize cost-of-living adjustments for federal retirees, and the Fair COLA for Seniors Act, to change how the annual adjustments are calculated.
The Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act would give feds 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, essentially replacing the 12 weeks of unpaid leave offered through the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
Agencies and unions should work together to determine if any federal positions are erroneously excluded from bargaining unit eligibility, according to new guidance from the Office of Personnel Management.
In what has become tradition in recent years, a bicameral pair of Democrats proposed a bill to give most civilian federal employees an 8.7% pay raise in 2024.
The Republican-led House is looking at opportunities to eliminate duplicative federal agencies and programs, as well as defund the IRS.
The Federal Labor Relations Authority looks to revise or remove a 2020 policy that made it easier for federal employees to cancel union dues payments.
The Social Security Administration wants to hire 4,000 new employees and drastically reduce processing times during 2023, but agency officials say they can't get there without full-year funding from Congress.
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The largest federal employee union is claiming several Veterans Affairs Department facilities unfairly limited or denied administrative leave to employees looking to vote, as mandated by the Biden administration.
The Federal Salary Council reported that federal pay fell further behind private sector pay, from a pay gap of 22.47% in 2021 to 24.09% in 2022.
In today's Federal Newscast, federal employees are seeing a growing gap in salary compared with the private sector.
IRS surge team employees will need to continue their work cutting down the agency's pandemic-era backlog of tax returns through the end of the year, but are getting a $1,000 onetime bonus for their efforts.
On average, enrollees in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) will pay 8.7% more toward their 2023 premiums, the Office of Personnel Management announced prior to the upcoming open season, which runs Nov. 14 through Dec. 12.