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Article: FEW Salutes Congress for Passing Federal Workforce Provisions.
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- Politics & Government Week
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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Federally Employed Women (FEW) applauds the Congress for passing several critical federal workforce measures as part of the 2010 Defense Authorization Bill (HR 2647) that included unused sick leave credit, the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) Redeposit provision, rehiring retirees with no penalties, and allowing federal employees to work part-time at the end of their careers while retaining their full-time salary status for purposes of calculating their retirement benefits. "We cannot express enough appreciation to the Congressional leaders who made this happen," stated Sue Webster, FEW's National President. "While we cannot name them all, we wanted to cite Rep. ...