Posted on 12/20/2010 5:52:47 PM PST by COBOL2Java
A continuing resolution that would fund the government through March 4, 2011 and freeze federal worker pay will be the subject of a vote in the Senate early Tuesday morning according to The Hill.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has filed a motion to end debate on a continuing resolution that would fund the federal government through March 4.
The Senate bill is a substitute to the House-passed continuing resolution that would have funded the government through September 30 and included changes to funding sought by the Obama administration.
The 36-page bill provides a small increase of $1.16 billion over fiscal 2010 levels and, as noted above, it also includes the two-year freeze on federal civilian worker pay proposed this month by President Obama.
Sixty votes are required to end debate. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says that he and Reid had a deal on the funding measure although there are apparently still some outstanding issues.
....at all-time high levels. What hubris to complain!
Someone should have put in a 25% pay cut....altho would be better in a diffEREnt bill...as a poison pill....say, the START one....
I WISH I had pay protection like this right now. My husband took a 20% pay cut almost two years ago, and it does not look like he will be getting it updated any time soon.
While federal employees will have to endure a pay freeze for the next two years, you'll get a chance to watch gays go on active duty and will watch as their gay faux spouses collect all the active duty military benefits that current military spouses recieve.
Also, if you aren't satisfied with your current position, apply for a different job, perhaps a federal job.
Got NEWS for ya! They are STILL gonna get FAT pay raises! This bill just eliminates the INFLATION ADJUSTMENT, which is minimal these days, anyway. They will STILL get “performance!?!?” increases! Probably longevity ones, also!
The last I heard, the level step increases would not be affected by the freeze.
I know! SOME freeze, huh? I wish I had a “freeze” like THAT!
This is NOT a freeze! This is a request to use the term reduced pay escalation rate instead. It was NEVER internded to be a “freeze”, like we have in the private sector. The pay of ALL of them is still going UP!!!
OK according to this article http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2010/12/03/federal-pay-freeze-isnt/ this “freeze” only applies to the COLA. This “freeze” will not affect step increases or performance awards (of which almost all fed employees receive regardless of their performance).
Big deal.
Performance
In my experience only the Senior Executive Service people get much in the way of awards. Probably about 50% of Fed employees might get $500-$2000 per year if they are lucky. Many get nothing. I recall one year when all anyone got was $50 ea.
Within grades are given each ear for the first 3 years, then there is a 2 year waiting period for the next 3 years, then a 3 year waiting period for the final 3 years; after that, no within grade increases are paid.
Perhaps not quite as generous as some of you were assuming.
Yes, and I recall during my 20 year fed experience giving up a performance award so that the employees under my direct supervision might receive one. Funny, my service chief and none of the other service chiefs I knew went without.
My point was and is that calling this a pay freeze is disingenuous.
This isn’t just another “cut” [in the rate of growth] ploys, is it?
Yep, it’s just a freeze for each grade of pay.
This doesn’t stop folks from moving up in paygrade and getting a pay increase.
And this is what they’ll do.
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