Pay Changes for Defense Civilians, a Request for a Time and Attendance Study, and More

In a memo to agency leaders last week, Office of Personnel Management Director Jeff Pon highlighted a number of changes and extensions to civilian employee pay programs at the Defense Department, all of which were a result of the National Defense Authorization Act signed last fall. The Reserve Income Replacement Program, a Defense program to reimburse reservists who have been on repeated or extended active duty deployments for income lost while not at their day job, will now run until Dec. 31, 2018. The extension does not apply to differential payments, a similar but separate program for reservists who also are federal workers.