WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- Sen. Brian Schatz issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) and U.S. Representative James Walkinshaw (D-Va.) introduced the Federal Adjustment of Income Rates (FAIR) Act, a bill that would provide federal employees with a 4.1 percent pay increase in calendar year 2027.
For more than a decade, federal employees have endured government shutdowns, pay freezes, hiring freezes, and lost pay as a result of sequestration-related furloughs. The FAIR Act's wage adjustment restores years of lost wage increases for federal employees by ensuring that federal employees, who serve in all 50 states on behalf of constituents in every congressional district, earn an average pay increase of 4.1...