Management
Bipartisan Bill Would Block Schedule F, Similar Future Efforts
The Preventing a Patronage System Act would require congressional action before transferring competitive service employees to a new job classification.
Pay & Benefits
Agencies Outline How Feds Will Repay Payroll Taxes That Have Been Deferred
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Management
Social Security Unions Urge Biden to Oust Agency Leadership on Day One
Although most political appointees are expected to resign ahead of the president-elect’s inauguration next week, the two top employees at the Social Security Administration have terms that run until 2025.
Management
OPM Issues Post-Election SES Hiring Freeze Weeks Later than Previous Administrations
The moratorium on senior executive appointments comes more than a month later than it did when Obama was leaving office.
Management
EEOC Cancels Official Time for Union Reps Across Government
In a party-line vote, commission members issued a final rule stripping union officials from access to official time to work on colleagues’ discrimination complaints and tried to exempt the regulation from the Congressional Review Act.
Pay & Benefits
Travel Mileage Reimbursement Rates Fall, and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Management
OPM Failed to Issue Guidance for D.C. Federal Workers During Insurrection
There was substantial warning ahead of the arrival of the group that violently stormed the U.S. Capitol seeking to overturn the results of the presidential election.
Pay & Benefits
OPM Issues Guidance on Law Allowing Feds to Temporarily Carry Over More Annual Leave
The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act allows all federal employees to carry over an additional 25% of unused leave due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pay & Benefits
TSP Portfolios End 2020 on a High Note
Each of the funds in the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings program posted gains last month.
Management
Trump Vetoes Defense Policy Bill Over Base Names, Unrelated Internet Law
The House has already scheduled a vote after Christmas to override the president’s long-threatened rejection of the annual Defense authorization act, which also includes an expansion of federal employee leave benefits.
Pay & Benefits
No New Locality Pay Areas in 2022
The president’s pay agent declined to authorize a number of recommended changes to existing locality pay areas, overruling a federal advisory board.
Pay & Benefits
Spending Agreement Would Allow 1% Pay Raise, Fails to Ban Schedule F
Provision in the fiscal 2021 omnibus appropriations bill would give feds until the end of next year to repay payroll taxes deferred by the Trump administration from September through December.
Management
OPM Proposes Prioritizing Job Performance Over Tenure in Layoffs
Officials at the Office of Personnel Management are seeking to finalize a provision of President Trump’s controversial workforce executive orders before he leaves office.
Pay & Benefits
A Guide to Pay and Benefits During a Shutdown
Although lawmakers ultimately expect to reach a deal on federal appropriations, failure to pass a bill before Friday’s deadline could lead to a short lapse in funding. Here's what feds need to know.
Management
Broad Coalition of Employee, Advocacy Groups Makes Last-Ditch Effort to Convince Congress to Block Schedule F
With just days remaining until the latest government shutdown deadline, more than 60 organizations are pressuring Democratic lawmakers to ensure spending legislation includes a provision preventing the Trump administration from politicizing the civil service.
Management
As White House Steps Up Schedule F Implementation, ‘Lawmakers Don’t Get It’
Recent moves by OPM are stoking fear that the Trump administration is accelerating plans to politicize federal jobs as the window closes on Congress’ ability to block the move.
Pay & Benefits
House Overwhelmingly Passes Defense Bill With Leave Benefits, Setting Up Confrontation with Trump
Although the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act has bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress, the president has threatened to veto the must-pass bill over unrelated matters.
Management
Advocacy Group Urges Biden to ‘Clean House’ at Social Security, Lessen Impact of Payroll Tax Deferral
Under a proposal floated by the organization Social Security Works, federal employees would have twice as long next year to pay back the payroll taxes they were forced to defer by the Trump administration.
Pay & Benefits
The Federal Gender Pay Gap Is Shrinking, But the Remaining Disparity May Be the Hardest to Eliminate
Although the gap between men and women at federal agencies has fallen from 19 cents on the dollar in 1999 to 7 cents in 2017, the vast majority of the remaining salary discrepancy is “unexplained,” watchdog finds.
Management
Compromise Defense Policy Bill Includes Paid Parental Leave Fix, Allows Feds to Carry Over More Annual Leave
The latest version of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act does not include House-passed measures blocking the Defense secretary from exempting Pentagon employees from collective bargaining.
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