IFPTE Urges Support for Congresswoman Norton's Legislation to Resolve Federal Pay Compression
This week, IFPTE requested Members of the House of Representatives cosponsor the Pay Compression Relief Act, H.R. 5171, sponsored by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). This legislation addresses one of IFPTE’s longstanding federal sector priorities — eliminating the artificial pay cap in federal pay systems that impacts federal workers in high cost-of-living localities.
IFPTE’s letter reminds Congress that, “The existing pay caps in federal pay systems have created a disincentive for senior, mid-career, and high-skilled federal workers with specialized knowledge to continue their careers in the civil service while also creating an artificial constraint for agencies' recruitment and retention efforts to retain and recruit high-skilled federal workers as federal pay falls further behind private sector pay. “