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James48843
12-23-2012, 12:57 PM
from: CHCOC (http://chcoc.gov/transmittals/TransmittalDetails.aspx?TransmittalID=5189)





MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES


From:

John Berry
Director



Subject:

2013 Pay Adjustments for Federal Civilian Employees


On September 28, 2012, the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 (Public Law 112-175) (Resolution) became law. Section 114 of that law states that “any statutory pay adjustment (as defined in section 147(b)(2) of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 (Public Law 111–242)) otherwise scheduled to take effect during fiscal year 2013 but prior to the date specified in section 106(3) of this joint resolution [March 27, 2013] may take effect on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning after the date specified in section 106(3).” (See Attachment 1).


Consistent with the Resolution, on December 21, 2012, the President issued a memorandum stating that any increases in pay systems or pay schedules covering executive branch employees or any general increases in covered employees’ rates of pay that could otherwise take effect as a result of the exercise of administrative discretion should not be made until after the date specified in section 106(3) of the Resolution. (See Attachment 2.) The President directed the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to issue any necessary guidance on implementing this memorandum.


Agencies should continue to comply with the guidance in my memorandum of December 30, 2010. (See CPM 2010-24 (http://www.chcoc.gov/Transmittals/TransmittalDetails.aspx?TransmittalID=3384).) Any reference in that guidance to an expiration date of December 31, 2012, should be considered to be revised to refer to the date specified in section 106(3) of the Resolution, which is set at March 27, 2013. Absent any intervening change in law, after the expiration of the Resolution, agencies may grant increases in pay schedules and general increases in covered employees’ rates of pay in accordance with their administrative discretion.


For general information on Federal pay, leave, and work scheduling policies, please visit www.opm.gov/oca/index.asp (http://www.opm.gov/oca/index.asp). Employees should contact their agency human resources office for information on 2013 pay adjustments for Federal civilian employees. Agency field offices should contact their appropriate agency headquarters-level human resources office. Agency headquarters-level officials may contact Pay and Leave at OPM at pay-leave-policy@opm.gov. Requests from individual employees will be returned or forwarded to the appropriate agency human resources office.


Attachment 1—Section 114 of Public Law 112-175
Attachment 2—Presidential Memorandum
cc: Chief Human Capital Officers
Human Resources Directors



Attachment 1 - Section 114 of Public Law 112-175SEC. 114. (a) Section 147 of Public Law 111–242, as added by Public Law 111–322, shall be applied by substituting the date specified in section 106(3) of this joint resolution for ‘‘December 31, 2012’’ each place it appears.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any statutory pay adjustment (as defined in section 147(b)(2) of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 (Public Law 111–242)) otherwise scheduled to take effect during fiscal year 2013 but prior to the date specified in section 106(3) of this joint resolution may take effect on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning after the date specified in section 106(3).


Attachment 2—Presidential Memorandum December 21, 2012


MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES


SUBJECT: Federal Employee Pay Schedules and Rates That Are Set by Administrative Discretion
On December 22, 2010, I issued a memorandum stating that the heads of executive departments and agencies should suspend any increases to any pay systems or pay schedules covering executive branch employees, and should forgo any general increases in covered employees’ rates of pay, that could otherwise take effect as a result of the exercise of administrative discretion during the period beginning on January 1, 2011, and ending on December 31, 2012. In light of section 114 of the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 (Public Law 112-175), I am hereby instructing the heads of executive departments and agencies that they should continue to adhere to this policy through March 27, 2013, the date after which statutory pay adjustments may be made pursuant to section 114 of Public Law 112-175.

This memorandum shall be carried out to the extent permitted by law and consistent with executive departments’ and agencies’ legal authorities. This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall issue any necessary guidance on implementing this memorandum, and is also hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

BARACK OBAMA







I guess than means we go into a third year with no pay raise.

Hope they get that 'fiscal cliff" thingy fixed soon.

burrocrat
12-23-2012, 01:12 PM
Hope they get that 'fiscal cliff" thingy fixed soon.

since that would involve curtailing deficit spending, i don't think it's likely to happen.

nnuut
12-24-2012, 12:06 PM
No raise is a TAX!
Raising contributions to retirement plans is a TAX.
Raising premiums to FEHB Plans is a TAX.
Someone is batting 1000 at making Government Employees the scapegoats.

nnuut
12-26-2012, 08:11 AM
Your buddies at the Heritage Foundation, piping in their ideological anti fed employee policies via Boehner and McConnell are batting 1000.
Wrong, again!

nnuut
12-26-2012, 12:18 PM
Just STOP over spending, It's the economy, DUH! Liberals don't know how to budget their own checkbooks, this problem is way out of reach of their pea brains.

tsptalk
12-28-2012, 02:02 PM
End of the Federal Pay Freeze Announced - FedSmith.com (http://www.fedsmith.com/2012/12/27/end-of-the-federal-pay-freeze-announced/)

uscfanhawaii
12-28-2012, 02:16 PM
Very Interesting....if small. And it is very obvious that the pay freezes didn't amount to anything against the tremendous deficit! I know at my workplace, all the freeze did was cause a massive amount of retirements, and a lot of hiring back the same retirees as 'contractors'. Give me a break.... :suspicious:

Fran1775
12-28-2012, 07:25 PM
I think that well all enjoy the pay raise but he says that congress has to pass a budget first! This is something the Obama administration has not been able to do as of yet. Lets wait and see what happens in March!

Buster
12-29-2012, 10:23 PM
End of the Federal Pay Freeze Announced - FedSmith.com (http://www.fedsmith.com/2012/12/27/end-of-the-federal-pay-freeze-announced/)
Federal Employee's pay adjustments was always made at the beginning of the Fiscal Year (October)..But in an effort to save money the pay adjustments (if any) would now start coming in January..and the work-hour year went from 2080 hours to 2088 hours..Remember that one they stuck to us?...SO NOW! if this Fedsmith editorialist is to be believed. your Pay adjustments (if any) will start coming in March..Keep this up, they would have basically saved a whole year worth of pay adjustments for COLA, Inflation, Etc..if you can see where I was going with this line of thinking......hmmm..I wonder if the work-hour year will be 2096 hours also...That would definately skew some numbershttp://www.hummer4x4offroad.com/forum/images/smilies/169.gif

Warrenlm
02-10-2013, 07:14 PM
Federal employees' union head: Obama pay raise proposal 'simply not enough' - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room (http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/282089-union-head-complains-obama-pay-raise-proposal-not-enough)

The president of the American Federation of Government Employees says a one-percent increase is "absolutely unconscionable."
The head of the largest federal employee union said Saturday that President Obama's proposal to increase pay for federal employees (http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/282049-obama-to-propose-1-percent-pay-hike-for-federal-workers) by 1 percent was "absolutely unconscionable" and "simply not enough."

"It is not enough to allow federal employees to make up lost ground from two-plus years of frozen pay. It is not enough to allow workers, most of whom earn very modest salaries ranging from $24,000 to $70,000, to maintain living standards. And it is not enough to send a message with any kind of clarity that the administration values the federal workforce and doesn't believe it should continue to bear an enormously disproportionate share of deficit reduction," David Cox Sr., the president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), said in a statement.

JTH
02-10-2013, 07:27 PM
Federal employees' union head: Obama pay raise proposal 'simply not enough' - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room (http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/282089-union-head-complains-obama-pay-raise-proposal-not-enough)

The president of the American Federation of Government Employees says a one-percent increase is "absolutely unconscionable."
The head of the largest federal employee union said Saturday that President Obama's proposal to increase pay for federal employees (http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/282049-obama-to-propose-1-percent-pay-hike-for-federal-workers) by 1 percent was "absolutely unconscionable" and "simply not enough."

"It is not enough to allow federal employees to make up lost ground from two-plus years of frozen pay. It is not enough to allow workers, most of whom earn very modest salaries ranging from $24,000 to $70,000, to maintain living standards. And it is not enough to send a message with any kind of clarity that the administration values the federal workforce and doesn't believe it should continue to bear an enormously disproportionate share of deficit reduction," David Cox Sr., the president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), said in a statement.

It's discussing when you think of how much money is wasted on special programs/pet-projects, that budget pales in comparison to what we get paid. :mad:

nnuut
02-10-2013, 08:10 PM
Federal employees' union head: Obama pay raise proposal 'simply not enough' - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room (http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/282089-union-head-complains-obama-pay-raise-proposal-not-enough)

The president of the American Federation of Government Employees says a one-percent increase is "absolutely unconscionable."
The head of the largest federal employee union said Saturday that President Obama's proposal to increase pay for federal employees (http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/282049-obama-to-propose-1-percent-pay-hike-for-federal-workers) by 1 percent was "absolutely unconscionable" and "simply not enough."

"It is not enough to allow federal employees to make up lost ground from two-plus years of frozen pay. It is not enough to allow workers, most of whom earn very modest salaries ranging from $24,000 to $70,000, to maintain living standards. And it is not enough to send a message with any kind of clarity that the administration values the federal workforce and doesn't believe it should continue to bear an enormously disproportionate share of deficit reduction," David Cox Sr., the president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), said in a statement.
Well said I'd say considering that everyone in the USA thinks all government workers make about $150,000 a year.

sniper
02-14-2013, 11:05 AM
Rep. Ron DeSantis introduces bill to extend freeze in federal workers’ pay | Twitchy (http://twitchy.com/2013/01/16/rep-ron-desantis-introduces-bill-to-extend-freeze-in-federal-workers-pay/)

republicans trying to block this and freeze our pay for 2 more years. it will save a grand total of 11 billion. WOW that is really doing a lot to cover the budget deficit... 11 billion, stop the presses! I'm glad they have a grasp on basic math like being totally ok with spending 2.5 trillion on a personal vendetta against sadaam hussein lol

Frixxxx
02-14-2013, 11:18 AM
Rep. Ron DeSantis introduces bill to extend freeze in federal workers’ pay | Twitchy (http://twitchy.com/2013/01/16/rep-ron-desantis-introduces-bill-to-extend-freeze-in-federal-workers-pay/)

republicans trying to block this and freeze our pay for 2 more years. it will save a grand total of 11 billion. WOW that is really doing a lot to cover the budget deficit... 11 billion, stop the presses! I'm glad they have a grasp on basic math like being totally ok with spending 2.5 trillion on a personal vendetta against sadaam hussein lol

LOL, Dems started the pay freeze so why not, got to keep up appearances.... we lost two viable candidates to our office because of this sequestration and budget issues. Nothing like trying to roll out projects to the military to make it cheaper and easier to manage costs, but, nope delayed...evil civil servant sitting on his ass again...LOL, LOL, LOL...should we keep laughing sniper? Do we keep trying to look at the two-sided coin to figure out which side the blame is on, or should we just get a new coin?

sniper
02-14-2013, 11:28 AM
At this point, it doesn't matter which side the blame is on, both parties are at fault imo. I'm all for getting a new coin, that's why I voted for Gary Johnson. Unfortunately he didn't get enough votes, but the 2 party system has been a big failure for the last 12 years

dems aren't off the hook either, i think these extended unemployment benefits / welfare is bull and maybe those should be cut first instead of touching the working class members' pay. i mean seriously if people are out of work for 1 1/2 years, they either aren't looking hard enough for a job, or just plain suck too bad at what they do to get hired

nasa1974
02-14-2013, 06:43 PM
At this point, it doesn't matter which side the blame is on, both parties are at fault imo. I'm all for getting a new coin, that's why I voted for Gary Johnson. Unfortunately he didn't get enough votes, but the 2 party system has been a big failure for the last 12 years

dems aren't off the hook either, i think these extended unemployment benefits / welfare is bull and maybe those should be cut first instead of touching the working class members' pay. i mean seriously if people are out of work for 1 1/2 years, they either aren't looking hard enough for a job, or just plain suck too bad at what they do to get hired


Took my wife 14 months to finally get off unemployment. She had to apply for 2 jobs a week (minimum) and went through at least 12 interviews over that time. Some times she got called back two more times. Believe it or not most places said she was over qualified but wouldn't make an offer. Finally a Temp Agency cold called her because they somehow saw her resume and wanted to work with her. They found her a job but it might only last six months.

Buster
02-15-2013, 12:23 AM
The great debate..

Do we get furloughed 11 days, or do we allow the pay freeze to remain in effect instead?...If I had a choice, I would choose the latter...at least it won't be a reduction in pay..I could live with that, if it meant helping out in the grand scheme of things with the budget thing.
It's kinda like going along with $4.00/gal gas vs $5.00/gal...they both suck like a sharp stick in the eye, but I'll take the lesser of two evils..

WorkFE
02-15-2013, 07:03 AM
The problem with pay freezes and/or furloughs, all in the name of saving money, once it is signed off on someone finds a way to bump up an expenditure somewhare else. Your forced generocity is always someone elses good fortune. But I'm with ya Buster. I would rather not a single citizen lose their job. Public and Private sector.

Kaufmanrider
02-15-2013, 09:02 AM
The great debate..

Do we get furloughed 11 days, or do we allow the pay freeze to remain in effect instead?...If I had a choice, I would choose the latter...at least it won't be a reduction in pay..I could live with that, if it meant helping out in the grand scheme of things with the budget thing.
It's kinda like going along with $4.00/gal gas vs $5.00/gal...they both suck like a sharp stick in the eye, but I'll take the lesser of two evils..

Looks like we'll end up getting both. :sick: