OPM proposes new limits on back pay for federal employees, unions

Federal News Network: The Office of Personnel Management wants to limit the kinds of scenarios where federal employees can receive back pay — and exclude unions who represent their members in those cases from receiving attorney fees.

In new draft regulations published Wednesday, OPM is reinterpreting its own 39-year-old reading of the Back Pay Act and subsequent revisions from the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) of 1978. OPM hasn’t updated its regulations on back pay for federal employees since 1981.

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