IFPTE welcomed the OPM's announced Notice for Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to make Federal Wage System (FWS) locality pay areas equitable with General Schedule (GS) locality pay areas.
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United States Office of Personnel Management Director, Kiran Ahuja, announced this week that she will be stepping down in the coming weeks from her role leading the agency.
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The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued its final rule this week to protect the due process and civil service worker protections of federal workers from attacks similar to the Schedule F attacks promulgated by the Trump Administration.
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IFPTE welcomed President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) on “Scaling and Expanding the Use of Registered Apprenticeships in Industries and the Federal Government and Promoting Labor-Management Forums.”
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Officers of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers welcomes the Biden-Harris Administration's announcement that Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has proposed rulemaking to strengthen and clarify the status of civil service positions and protections, and establish procedures regarding transferring positions from competitive service to the excepted service as well as within the excepted service.
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In anticipation of a March 9th hearing in the House Oversight and Accountability Committee to provide oversight of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), IFPTE provided a detailed statement to Committee lawmakers in support of OPM’s federal worker telework policy.
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IFPTE issued the following statements applauding the Senate’s confirmation of Robert H. Shriver, III, President Biden’s nominee to serve as Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel.
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IFPTE applauded today’s release of the annual report of the President’s Pay Agent, which approves recommendations made by the Federal Salary Council that would add locality pay for over 33,000 federal employees in the General Schedule (GS) pay system.
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IFPTE’s executive officers released statements supporting Robert H. Shriver, III, President Biden’s nominee to serve as Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel (OPM). IFPTE President Biggs noted Shriver’s “experience, expertise and, most importantly, appreciation… for the federal workforce.”
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This week, OPM issued guidance to federal agencies to remove barriers to union’s access to represented employees, improve federal employees’ ability to join unions, and provide training to federal managers and supervisors that stresses maintaining neutrality during union organizing campaigns.
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Elections have consequences. This weeks’ announcement by Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh on boosting union representation in the federal sector is a positive consequence that stands in stark contrast to the policies of the previous administration.
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This week, IFPTE requested that Senators vote to confirm Kiran Ahuja, President Biden’s nominee for the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
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Following last week’s Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs approval of Ahuja to lead OPM, the Federal Workers Alliance penned a letter to all 100 Senators this week urging support for her nomination, writing that, “After the last four years, during which there was a concerted effort to shutter OPM, it is critically important that this agency has a leader that not only believes in its mission, but one that also has a proven track record of success.”
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IFPTE “looks forward to a productive working relationship” with Kiran Ahuja as the OPM Director
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As federal agencies are planning for vaccinations of federal workers, IFPTE requests that the Trump Administration provide the union with “assurances in writing from that federal frontline workers are granted higher priority than either political appointees."
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