Then you should know that the raises were halted by executive order, therefore he has the authority to restore them by executive order. The real constitutional question is if someone has the authority to halt congressionally manadated raises by executive order.
Then you should know that the raises were halted by executive order, therefore he has the authority to restore them by executive order.
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Several years ago Obama wanted to beat Congress to the punch and PROPOSED a federal civilian employee pay freeze. Congress said sure, and didn’t propose a pay raise for the past three years.
There are no automatic annual federal employee pay raises so there are no automatic pay raises to “halt by executive order”. As part of the annual appropriations process, Congress will include a certain amount of money for federal pay raises (along with specifying how big [percentage increase] that pay increase should be) IF IT IS SO INCLINED. It HAS NOT been so inclined in recent years.
You very well may know more of the details of this process than I do, but please post a link to some documentation showing that this current Congress has passed a pay raise for 2013.