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The Office of Personnel Management’s annual data call asks agencies to take a look at any jobs that might need a higher salary than General Schedule rates to help with recruitment and retention.

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Ahead of the new Postal health program's launch in 2025, the Office of Personnel Management has created a landing page with more information. 

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Congress has until the end of the month to reauthorize Overseas Comparability Pay.

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A new bill, called the Right to IVF Act, rolls together four previous bills all aiming to broaden fertility coverage nationwide.

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The Department of the Air Force is on track to meet its recruitment goals for fiscal 2024 across all components.

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The government saw less staff attrition in fiscal 2023 but some demographic groups are still showing higher rates of quitting than others.

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The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the cuts to IRS funding would reduce its total revenue collection by nearly $66 billion dollars over the next decade.

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Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville is holding up the promotion of Lieutenant General Ronald Clark to lead Army forces in the Pacific. 

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Agencies are getting an important exception to the National Archives policy of no longer accepting paper records. NARA says agencies can continue sending official personnel folders to the National Personnel Records Center through June of 20-25. And agencies will be able to deliver employee medical folders to the records center until June of 20-27. NARA stopped accepting most paper records at its facilities this past June. But Archives officials have acknowledged that agencies need more time to digitize their personnel and medical records. 

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Lawmakers are officially filing their discharge petition today to try to move the Social Security Fairness Act to a floor vote. The bill aims to repeal the WEP and G-P-O, two provisions that reduce or eliminate Social Security for certain public servants. The discharge petition will only move forward if the document gains 218 signatures, a House majority. The Social Security Fairness Act currently has 326 cosponsors. NARFE is urging all House representatives to sign the petition to move the bill to a floor vote.

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