PMA's plans to modernize IT, workforce rebuffed by House Democrats

FedScoop: There was never an illusion that the workforce proposals in the President’s Management Agenda would get an easy ride through Washington, despite support from some federal employee groups.

The tension continued in a hearing on Capitol Hill this week as House Democrats pushed back against the idea that existing federal workers would benefit from the Trump administration’s plans to expand the use of automation technology and make employee compensation more market-based. Those proposals in the PMA come at the same time the Office of Personnel Management is recommending a fiscal 2019 pay freeze and changes to employee and retiree benefits.

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