By Natalie Alms
The Office of Personnel Management is teeing up guidance as it looks to a future where more feds work remotely under a pay system not necessarily designed for large numbers of workers’ homes and office locations to be separated by the substantial physical distances that technology enables.
The personnel office is working through what potential changes may be needed in regards to locality pay and remote work policies in the post-pandemic era, an OPM official said at an event hosted by ACT-IAC on Thursday.
“There’s a lot of meat on the bone for us there,” said Rob Shriver, the associate director for employee services at OPM. “We’re currently working through that, and I think that we will have some guidance in the first round of guidance that we get out.”
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Feds Are Denied Step Increases In Just 1 of Every 1,000 Cases
Within-grade pay raises are nearly automatic rather than a true appraisal tool, board finds.
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Federal agencies deny their employees a step increase and corresponding pay bump just once in every 1,000 opportunities to do so, according to a new report, which found supervisors often fail to properly assess whether the reward is warranted.
Each of the 15 grades in the General Schedule the pay system for most federal workers has 10 steps, each of which corresponds to a distinct pay level. Employees are only eligible to move up to the next step if they demonstrate an “acceptable level of competence,” though a Merit Systems Protection Board study released on Monday found many agencies have failed to implement a process to ensure compliance with that baseline standard.