On Dec. 21, the president issued an executive order on federal pay which finalizes the pay tables for all the locality areas. Unfortunately, the executive order keeps in place the 2.2 percent average raise the administration had sought all year long. The pay tables reflect the actual raises that will go into effect in January. NTEU intends to revisit the issue with Congress in the new year but the possibility that a year-long continuing resolution will be passed by Congress, funding the government for the rest of the fiscal year, limits our opportunity to increase the raise.NTEU will also begin working with Congress on a fair federal raise for 2008. The draft general schedule and locality pay tables that were previously released by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are now the final pay tables for 2007.
