Posts tagged civil service protections
IFPTE Tells House Oversight Committee That Cuts to Federal Retirement and Merit Protections Will Hurt Government Services Americans Count On
IFPTE Tells House Oversight Committee That Cuts to Federal Retirement and Merit Protections Will Hurt Government Services Americans Count On

As anticipated in previous IFPTE letters to Members of Congress opposing cuts to federal benefits and other threats to the federal civil service, the Republican-led Budget Reconciliation bill that is being unveiled contains deeply misguided pending cuts to the Federal Employee Retirement System and attacks on merit protections.

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Government, Labor RightsFaraz KhanFERS, Budget Reconciliation, merit principles, MSPB, civil service protections
IFPTE Applauds Biden Administration and OPM for Proposing Rulemaking to Reinforce the Non-Partisan and Merit-Based Civil Service
IFPTE Applauds Biden Administration and OPM for Proposing Rulemaking to Reinforce the Non-Partisan and Merit-Based Civil Service

Officers of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers welcomes the Biden-Harris Administration's announcement that Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has proposed rulemaking to strengthen and clarify the status of civil service positions and protections, and establish procedures regarding transferring positions from competitive service to the excepted service as well as within the excepted service.

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Government, Labor RightsCandace RhettOPM, Biden Administration, civil service protections, competitive service