Performance Pay Cut Off

At least 800 members of the government's Senior Executive Service will be told they must give up performance-based pay raises awarded them late last year. The pay hikes are worth several thousand dollars a year in some cases. Federal News Radio's Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has learned SES personnel at the Department of Energy were told the pay increase granted to them in December 2010 will be cancelled this coming Sunday. Energy's SESers were told that the pay take-back was directed by the Office of Personnel Management as part of the 2-year federal pay freeze ordered by the White House and Congress. There are 7,000 career SES members across government. Causey reports chances are that the number added to the give-back ranks will grow. The good news: SES members won't have to pay back the raises they have been getting for the past few months.