Federal Government Policy and Business

Seeking equal payment for everyone

Federal Times: A new piece of legislation entitled the Federal Employee Pension Fairness Act of 2017 has been proposed. The act would repeal increases recently enforced on federal employees’ retirement contributions.

"Taking money from from the paychecks of hard working public servants simply cannot be justified," American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr. said. He continued, explaining that, since 2010, federal employees have "had more than $182 billion taken from their salary and benefits and earn 6.5 percent less now than they did at the start of the decade."

This continual increase in retirement contributions in an attempt to fix the budget deficit is "inexcusable," Cox said. He explained that the legislation has the full support of AFGE.

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