By Brittany R. Ballenstedt bballenstedt@govexec.com
May 1, 2008
Federal agencies are not providing adequate or equitable compensation to workers who volunteer for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new report by a House subcommittee.
The report, issued by the House Armed Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, found that there are both real and perceived differences in compensation and other incentives between federal employees deploying to war zones from different agencies and with different job classifications.
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