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The findings highlight the need for President Biden’s proposed 4.6% raise for federal employees, unions said.

Biden nominates members to the Federal Salary Council, allowing it to move forward with compensation-related recommendations.

The General Schedule pay system is too rigid to allow the government to attract and retain employees in today’s tight labor market.

Although the president’s pay agent declined to waive the requirement that there be at least 2,500 General Schedule employees in a region to be eligible ...

Although the Federal Salary Council could clear up years of disagreements that cropped up during the Trump administration, President Biden has thus far ...

Proposed legislation would prevent hourly wage employees from receiving a different locality pay adjustment than salaried employees working in the same location.

Government Executive email Seven proposals for changing compensation to help realize a larger goal—an effective public service. The transition from the Trump administration to the Biden administration has orchestrated a crescendo of views about fixing the federal civil service. Most of those involve eliminating Schedule F; honoring civil service; increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts; and restoring labor-management collaboration.       Few of the proposals I’ve...