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2015 Issue Papers 2015 ISSUE PAPERS AFGE 2015 AFGE 2015 Issue Papers Table of Contents Federal Pay – General Schedule…………………………………………………………………………..1 Federal Pay – Blue Collar …………………………………………………………………………………..15 Federal Retirement…………………………………………………………………………………………….19 Federal Employees’ Health Benefits Program…………………………………………………….23 Arbitrary Cuts in Civil Servants……………………………………………………………………………30 Sourcing: Complying with the Law…………………………………………………………………….35 Official Time for Federal Employee Union Representatives………………………………..50 Elimination of Federal Employees’ Right to Payroll Deduction of Union Dues…….54 Department of Defense……………………………………………………………………………………..56 Department of Veterans’ Affairs………………………………………………………………………100 Bureau of Prisons…………………………………………………………………………………………….108 Transportation Security Administration……………………………………………………………126 Paid Parental Leave………………………………………………………………………………………….132 Equality for All Federal Employees…………………………………………………………………..135 Federal Workers’ Due Process Rights…….…………………………………………………………139 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission……………………………………………….….144 One America, Many Voices Act…………………………………………………………………………156 Federal Pay – General Schedule Federal pay is affected not only by the annual adjustments authorized by law and almost always altered by Congress. It is also determined by many administrative decisions involving the boundaries that define local pay areas and how market comparability is calculated. During the three-year pay freeze, the administration refused to implement any of the changes recommended by the two statutorily-mandated advisory committees on federal pay, arguing that since some might result in higher pay for some employees, implementation would violate the “spirit” if not the “letter” of the laws imposing the freeze. This administrative “freeze” continues two years after the end of the regular pay freeze. In the meantime, federal wages and salaries continue to lag those in the private sector and state and local government. Although federal pay adjustments are, by law, supposed to reflect changes in the cost of labor rather than the cost of living, it is important to note how much the purchasing power of federal pay has declined as federal employees have become an all-purpose ATM for budget austerity. Since 2010, the inflation-adjusted value of federal wages and salaries has fallen by 6.5 percent, leaving all federal employees with a lower standard of living than they had just five years ago. The “Federal Adjustment of Incomes Rate (FAIR) Act of 2015” was introduced in both the House and Senate by Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA) (H.R. 304), and Senators Brian Schatz (D- HI) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) (S. 164) to help restore federal employees' standard of living and pay after three years of pay freezes and the past two years of 1% increases which have been well below the recommended baseline increase. The FAIR Act proposes a 3.8% pay increase in FY 2016 for all General Schedule and wage grade employees. AFGE strongly supports this legislation. Pay Adjustments for General Schedule: The Market Comparability Standard Under the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act (FEPCA), federal employees who are paid under the General Schedule are supposed to receive salaries that are roughly 95 percent of “market comparability.” This bipartisan law, enacted in 1990, established the principle that federal pay should be governed by the market, and salaries set at levels just five percent less than those in the private sector and state and local government. FEPCA required that the government produce a measure of market comparability on a regional basis, and provide annual adjustments that simultaneously close any measured gaps and make certain that no existing gap become larger. This was to be accomplished by providing federal employees with annual pay adjustments that had two components: one nationwide adjustment, and one locality-based gap-closing adjustment. The nationwide adjustments are based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Employment Cost Index (ECI), a broad measure of changes in private sector wages and salaries from across all industries and regions (the FEPCA formula is ECI – 0.5 percent). The locality adjustments are based on measures of pay gaps that 1 use Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data from surveys that compare, on a job-by-job basis, salaries in the federal government and those in the private sector and state and local government. The relevant nationwide measure for January 2016 is the 12-month period ending September 30, 2014, during which time the ECI rose by 2.3%. The law governing the General Schedule pay system calls for an annual across-the-board adjustment to base salaries equal to the ECI measure minus 0.5 percentage points. Thus, the January 2016 ECI adjustment should be 1.8%. Locality adjustments are meant to close gaps between federal and non-federal pay on a regional basis. The Federal Salary Council, the advisory body established in law to make recommendations to the President’s Pay Agent on locality pay, uses a weighted average of the locality pay gaps, based on a BLS model using data from both the National Compensation Survey (NCS) and the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) to measure the average disparity between federal and non-federal salaries for the jobs federal employees perform. As of March 2014, the overall remaining pay gap was 35.18%, based on the BLS model. Had the schedule for closing the pay gaps put forth in FEPCA been followed, comparability would have been realized more than a decade ago in 2002. But in each year since 1995, Congress and successive presidents have found reason to reduce or freeze the size of both the nationwide (ECI-based) and locality adjustments dictated by the law, variously citing economic emergency and deficit-cutting as rationales. The most recent data from BLS show the 2014 average remaining pay gap is 35.18%, compared to 35.37% for 2013 (the relevant year for the January 2015 adjustments). In spite of the repeated use of alternatives to the terms of FEPCA, there has been strong, consistent and broad bipartisan support for the goal of paying federal salaries that are comparable to those paid by private firms and state and local governments that employ people for the same kinds of jobs. AFGE will work to maintain support for the principle of pay comparability that uses job-by-job salary comparisons for all federal pay systems. The Federal Salary Council’s Recommendations In addition to measuring regional pay gaps and calculating the annual nationwide (ECI-based) adjustments under FEPCA, the Federal Salary Council makes recommendations regarding data, and changes to the boundaries of existing pay localities and the establishment of new localities. These changes reflect new data from the decennial census and focus on changes in commuting patterns and rates, the most important criteria in defining a local labor market. In each of the past four years, the Federal Salary Council has recommended some or all of the following: • Establish 13 new pay localities with federal-non-federal pay gaps that are least ten points above the average gap in the “Rest of U.S.,” (the catch-all locality that covers areas outside major metropolitan area localities). The areas are: Albany, New York; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Davenport, 2 Iowa, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Laredo, Texas; Las Vegas, Nevada; Palm Bay, Florida; St. Louis, Missouri; Tucson, Arizona; and Kansas City, Missouri. • Add the small number of counties that are or would become entirely surrounded by non-RUS localities to existing localities. • Drop from the criteria for establishment or maintenance of a GS locality any reference to the number of GS employees, since concentration of GS employment does not define a local labor market or indicate economic linkage among counties in a commuting area. • Restore full funding for the BLS National Compensation Survey (NCS), particularly the wage survey portion that was specifically designed to match private sector and state and local government jobs to federal jobs. • Use all commuting pattern data collected under the American Community Survey in determining areas for inclusion in locality pay areas. • Use new criteria for evaluating counties adjacent to Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) (7.5% employment interchange) and adjacent single counties (20%). • Use micropolitan areas if they are part of any Combined Statistical Area, whether or not of a Metropolitan Statistical Area was included, and recognize multi-county micropolitan areas for locality pay. The President’s Pay Agent has not implemented any of these recommendations. They promised to establish the new localities in January 2014, and have not done so for undisclosed reasons. AFGE urges adoption of all of these Council recommendations, as they will improve the market sensitivity of the pay system, and align the boundaries of pay localities with contemporary commuting patterns. In addition, responding positively to the recommendations of the Federal Salary Council would demonstrate respect for the law governing federal pay, a law intended to de-politicize federal pay setting. Past, Present, and Future: the Three-Year Freeze and Two Years of 1% How did a three-year freeze on the wages and salaries of federal employees – and threats of continued freezes or even outright pay reductions -- become our nation’s response to the collapse of the housing bubble, the financial crisis caused by this collapse, the
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