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Proposed Rule 2 Jun 2025 administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, freedom of information, labor market, economic impact, minnesota, wages, government employees, wage areas, employment regulation, federal wages

💵Proposed Changes to Hennepin NAF Wage Area and Business Impacts

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to abolish the Hennepin, Minnesota, nonappropriated fund (NAF) Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area and define most of its counties to the nearest NAF FWS wage areas. Those counties without NAF FWS employment would no longer be defined to a NAF wage area. These changes are necessary because NAF FWS employment in the survey area has been declining, and the local activities no longer have the capability to conduct local wage surveys.

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Compliance, Employment Initiatives, Economic Development 21 Jan 2025 administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, freedom of information, labor market, wages, employment trends, government employees, federal wage system, payroll management, appropriated fund, wage areas

💼Changes to Federal Wage System Impacting Wage Areas Announced

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to change the regulatory criteria used to define Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area boundaries and make changes in certain wage areas. The purpose of this change, which will affect around ten percent of the FWS workforce, is to make the FWS wage area criteria more similar to the General Schedule (GS) locality pay area criteria. This change is based on a December 2023 majority recommendation of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee (FPRAC), the statutory national-level labor-management committee that advises OPM on the administration of the FWS.

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