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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.
After weeks of negotiations and multiple short-term continuing resolutions, lawmakers on Monday approved a $1.4 trillion omnibus appropriations package to fund agencies through the end of fiscal 2021, although the measure would allow for only a 1% across-the-board pay raise for federal employees and fails to block implementation of President Trump’s controversial plan to politicize the civil service.
The bill, which was finalized and released Monday afternoon, is silent on federal employee compensation for next year, which effectively endorses the alternative pay plan that President Trump submitted in February. That plan provides civilian federal workers with a 1% across-the-b
Congress won’t block Trump’s order to strip civil service protections from many federal workers Eric Yoder The massive tax and spending bill approved by Congress would not prevent the Trump administration from stripping most civil service protections from a large class of federal employees, a dramatic reshaping of the career workforce opposed by federal employee groups and many Democrats. The bill also opens the door for President Trump to finalize a 1 percent federal raise for January that he proposed earlier, although that is not guaranteed, since more recently the administration advocated a pay freeze. It also gives many employees more time to pay a tax debt that was created under a separate administration policy.
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Fed Unions Fight Federal Labor Decision Limiting Lobbying
Law360 (December 16, 2020, 7:24 PM EST) Two unions representing federal workers urged the D.C. Circuit to reverse a Federal Labor Relations Authority decision blocking workers from indirectly lobbying on the job, saying the panel misread federal law prohibiting lobbying using federal funds.
The American Federation of Government Workers and the National Treasury Employees Union slammed the FLRA s ruling that the Anti-Lobbying Act blocks federal union officials from discussing lobbying efforts or training members to deal with Congress in their opening brief Tuesday challenging the policy pivot.
They argued that the ruling conflicts with agency precedent and workers explicit right under federal-sector labor law to lobby lawmakers on.
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NTEU publishes recommendations for the presidential transition, encouraging an end to President Trump’s antagonism of unions.
The leader of the National Treasury Employees Union said Monday that President-elect Biden should move swiftly to pursue a collaborative relationship with federal employee unions as he seeks to “repair the damage” caused by the Trump administration across the government.
NTEU has published a series of recommendations for Biden’s transition team entitled “United for America,” which argues that the one of the most important things that the new administration can do to achieve its goals is to re-empower the federal workforce and roll back the Trump administration’s efforts to hamper collective bargaining and other employee rights.