OPM moves to standardize General Schedule, blue collar locality pay areas For years, federal employee unions have bemoaned that the pay systems’ differing maps of high-cost regions created pay inequity within agency workforces. By Erich Wagner October 7, 2024 OPM’s retirement backlog continued...
The annual letter begins the negotiation process between OPM and health insurance companies that ends with announcements of new plan rates and terms in the fall, with a late-year open season for eligible persons to elect coverage for the following year. While for decades that has meant only the...