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IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel told reporters on Thursday that a potential government shutdown wouldn’t keep the agency from starting the tax filing season on Jan. 29, as planned.
Although OPM has made various tweaks to the federal pay system — such as removing a cap on higher pay rates, and shifting the onus for approving pay bonuses — broader problems with federal pay remain.
Over the last year, federal sector wages fell 27.54% behind those in the private sector, a more than 3% jump in the pay gap since 2022.
The 14 labor groups said OPM’s proposed rule has specific provisions that would support the career federal workforce for a long time.
She spent 20 years as a revenue officer at the IRS. Then she went into union work, serving for 14 years as president of a local in Wisconsin. Now she's the new national president of the National Treasury Employees Union.
The IRS is planning to furlough most of its employees, if lawmakers don’t avert a government shutdown by the end of the week.
Recent federal data underscores the fact that most federal employees live outside D.C., and that at least several thousand civilian federal workers live in every congressional district across the U.S.
The National Treasury Employees Union says the IRS will “partially close” if Congress triggers a lapse in appropriations.
Among the looming threat of a government shutdown, the National Treasury Employees Union also plans to advocate for federal telework and push against Schedule F in the coming months.
The Office of Personnel Management issued a proposed rule aiming to reinforce merit system protections for feds in case of a possible return of Schedule F. But some experts call for further action in Congress against Schedule F.
IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel says the IRS is close to reaching its largest workforce in more than a decade, and rolling out new technology to reduce call wait times.
Maybe Ron DeSantis knew what he meant to say, but gosh, his throat-slit comment was way off the mark.
In more than a thousand federal employee complaints filed against their unions, only 1% of those employees prevailed. That is according to research by a group called Americans for Fair Treatment. AFT says it is dedicated to ensuring accountability for federal employee unions.