Pay, Other Provisions Included

By: fedweek

The Senate version also orders OPM to encourage agencies to better help their employees with their child care needs, including through greater use of flexible working arrangements. Like the House bill, the Senate bill also continues several long-standing restrictions on training not related to official duties, a general ban on providing employee names and home addresses to unions or other organizations, and a general requirement that FEHB plans cover prescription contraceptives. On pay, both specify a 3.5 percent average general schedule raise in January 2008, require agencies to absorb the cost out of other appropriations, cap wage grade increases at the local GS rates, require that employees at DHS get the same raise as employees of other agencies, and similarly extend the same raise to DoD employees who are represented by a union or who are eligible for union representation. All employees who are under DoD’s national security personnel system are exempt from union representation.