Freeze the pay AFTER BRINGING IT IN LINE TO PRIVATE SECTOR RATES and you’re talking business. Freezing the current rates guarantees they will be grossly overpaid for the next two years.
this freeze is akin to jacking up prices before Black Friday so everyone thinks the deals are worth waiting in line for.
the real thing killing our republic are their pensions.
My employer is seriously thinking about going to a four day work week to save on payroll. We employ six people, all long term.
“Freeze the pay AFTER BRINGING IT IN LINE TO PRIVATE SECTOR RATES and you’re talking business.”
Now you’re talking! Per the article, federal pay and benefits increased 34% over the past decade, while in that time private sector pay and benefits increased 8%.
Keep this in mind the next time you spend two hours on hold and being shuffled from bureaucrat to bureaucrat when calling a federal agency to ask a simple question. You get to witness first hand how underworked the bureaucrats are, you now know how overpaid they are, and you get to see how your own productivity dives while attempting to gather a tidbit of information.
“Freezing the current rates guarantees they will be grossly overpaid for the next two years.”
Judy, just who are the “they” you are talking about? Would that be the fed employee working at a daycare “grossly overpaid” at $8 per hour or the retail clerk making $7.50 per hour. Their pay just got frozen, obviously to your delight.
Rush Limbaugh who prides himself on his research has his head up his arse on this one. Like people on this site that think this is so good Limbaugh has no clue how the fed system is setup. In many fed jobs people earn less than or equal to a Wal-Mart employee, they are called WG, WS, NS, NF and some GS. They just had their pay frozen. The vast majority of the “they” you refer to do not make as much as an assembly line worker at Ford. The “they” are professionals from the trades, medical profession, law enforcement and former military personnel with very specific training, not common in the public sector. “They” have to maintain all the same professional certifications as their private sector counterparts; many jobs require a degree along with specific training and years of experience in non –private sector systems and familiarity with hundreds of federal regulations and rules. The “they” are nurses, laundry workers and hospital orderlies, retail clerks in post exchanges, janitors, teachers, police, pilots, technicians and landscapers. Many professional could make more money in the private sector, but choose for various reasons to work in the public sector.
Many of the “they” serve in combat zones along side the military or Dept of State and are compensated for their risks. Obama has indiscriminately, with your approval frozen all federal pay. I am sure you have guessed that I am a federal employee. I have a graduate degree in my field and I have over 30 years of experience in my field. I do make slightly more than a private sector position I was offered. The additional compensation was directly related to the grad degree I worked so hard for. The civilian sector position did not require a degree. My federal job required a degree. Millions of us provide vital services for the military and federal police agencies at a fair compensation. The unintended consequences of this pay freeze will be more contractors, a decrease in service and more unemployment.
Grossly overpaid? Jesus woman, how’s that free health care in Canada working out for you? Stay out of affairs you don’t understand. The private sector is full of cheap cost-cutting hypocrites, who expect their employees to work harder for less, and offer more expensive, yet crappy benefits to boot. You really need to remove your head from your hind end, Canuk!