Most Feds Won't Reap the Benefits of Local Minimum Wage Laws

Government Executive: Federal workers on the low end of the General Schedule pay scale living in states or cities that have enacted laws to increase the minimum wage should not get their hopes up about getting more of a pay raise than Congress and the president enact in the coming years.

The Office of Personnel Management last week issued guidance to agencies instructing HR directors to stick to federal compensation regulations and not to comply with the growing number of states and localities instituting minimum wage laws in excess of the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.

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