Can OPM and fed unions agree on civil service reform?

Federal Times: The Office of Personnel Management recently drew congressional and federal employee union ire for proposals that would increase employee contributions to and decrease the payout of retirement benefits.

These changes were proposed under a larger civil service reform effort in the March 2018 President’s Management Agenda, which American Federation of Government Employees Policy Director Jacqueline Simon called a “worst practices” document for federal employees.

OPM Director Jeff Pon said in a May 16, 2018, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing that the relationship between employee unions and the administration is “not so good right now” and that there was very little the two can agree on.

Read article

Share