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Reports Highlights Junior Staffer Pay Disparity on Capitol Hill
While top House of Representatives employees earned a potential salary boost last year when Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) separated member and staffer salary caps, a new report indicates junior staffers have not seen the same pay increases.
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Federal Employees Earn Raise in the New Year
In an executive order, President Biden has approved an average 2.7 percent pay raise for federal civilian employees on December 22, 2021. The increase will be reflected in the first pay period of 2022 and restores pay parity between civilian employees and military personnel.
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Federal Professional Pay and its Impact on the Status of the Federal Veterinary Workforce
The National Association of Federal Veterinarians (NAFV) is committed to advocating for, and providing support to, the mission that Federal Veterinarians are tasked with accomplishing. This is the central function that drives our organization’s work. How that breaks down into practice takes many shapes, including keeping in tune with the status of the federal veterinary workforce and identifying its needs. Currently, the most important issue for NAFV is two-pronged. First, is the chronically high vacancy rate that is plaguing FSIS’s veterinary workforce, especially in midwestern districts. And second, which we believe is one of the factors contributing to the first, is the need for pay equity as it relates to federal veterinary professional pay.
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House Lawmakers Aim for Civilian Pay Parity with DoD
In a letter to House Appropriations Committee members on Friday, several lawmakers advocated for pay party with the Department of Defense (DoD). In the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), House lawmakers included a 3.0 percent pay increase for service men and women. The House lawmakers argued Congress should provide civilian federal employees with the same pay raise.