IFPTE followed up on last week’s meetings and letters to Congress to protect NASA missions and capabilities with another letter to House and Senate leadership, insisting that any funding deal must contain legislative language protecting congressionally approved funding levels from impoundments and prevent a unilateral implementation of the President’s budget contrary to Congressional intent.
Read MoreIFPTE’s executive officers released a statement regarding the OPM/OMB directive on widespread RIFs in the federal government. “IFPTE strongly condemns the OPM/OMB memo on RIFs that was released earlier today. Sadly, it continues the practice by the Trump Administration to callously demean the services provided by dedicated federal employees while laying out four phases by which they expect agencies across the government to imprudently RIF thousands upon thousands of workers.”
Read MoreIFPTE applauded today’s release of the annual report of the President’s Pay Agent, which approves recommendations made by the Federal Salary Council that would add locality pay for over 33,000 federal employees in the General Schedule (GS) pay system.
Read MoreIFPTE responded this week to a September 4th OMB memorandum to federal government agencies calling diversity and inclusion training “divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions,” along with a directive that agencies “cease and desist,” from funding the training.
Read MoreIn a letter to OMB and OPM, IFPTE informed the Trump Administration that, “voluntary implementation of OMB and OPM guidance by Agencies has been spotty, quite good in some places, but sadly subject to the whims of recalcitrant or incompetent management at others.”
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