Union: Rank-and-File Employees Deserve Bigger Bonuses Next Year, Too

Government Executive: A federal employee union says lifting the bonus cap for senior executives across government in fiscal 2017 without doing the same for other employees will lead to “significant morale issues” at agencies.

The National Treasury Employees Union has asked the Obama administration, which is raising the aggregate spending cap on agency performance awards for those in the Senior Executive Service as well as other senior-level career positions from 4.8 percent to 7.5 percent beginning Oct. 1, to unfreeze a similar restriction on bonuses for the rest of the federal workforce.

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