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NATCA NATIONAL OFFICE DEPARTMENTAL UPDATE September 22-October 5, 2018 LABOR RELATIONS DEPARTMENT PRE-3.8 RECRUITMENT, RELOCATION, AND RETENTION INCENTIVES On October 4, 2018, the Agency briefed NATCA regarding revisions to PRE-3.8 Recruitment, Relocation, and Retention Incentives. A recruitment incentive is an incentive paid to a new employee appointed to a hard-to-fill position. A relocation incentive is an incentive paid to a current employee who relocates to a new duty location fifty (50) miles or more away from the current duty location to accept a hard-to-fill position. A retention incentive is an incentive paid to a current employee with unique qualifications whose services meet a special need and who would likely leave the Federal Government without the incentive. The revisions require the Agency to produce annual reports on these incentives and clarifies that certain employees (e.g., phased retirees) are ineligible for the incentives. The revisions also place caps on the payment of these incentives for employees in the General Schedule and Federal Wage System pay plans. NATCA BUEs do not fall within those pay plans. POCs: Chief of Staff Dean Iacopelli, Special Counsel to the President Eugene Freedman, Director of Labor Relations Ryan Smith, and Labor Relations Attorney Grant Mulkey FAA BRIEFING ON NEW TRAVEL CARD PROVIDER On August 24, 2018, the Agency briefed NATCA regarding a pending change to the FAA Travel Card provider in November 2018. Specifically, the FAA will be changing from the current provider, JP Morgan, to US Bank. The Agency intends to transition the travel charge card service provider from JP Morgan to the US Bank on midnight, November 29, 2018, meaning new cards will be issued and will be active at 12:01 a.m. on November 30, 2018. The change will impact all bargaining unit employees who travel and have been issued a government travel card. The FAA will work overnight to transfer employee profiles, and employees must check that their profiles are correct. The process for interfacing with the travel charge card service provider will be the same, but the user/charge card holder will have to set up a new account. The Agency will announce in mid-October that web-based training will be available. The identical OMB credit check process will remain unchanged. The maximum JPMorgan card cash advances were $500, maximum, and the USBank cash advances will be $525 based on a $7,500 maximum credit limit. The Agency intends to issue multiple communications regarding this change. Specifically, two weeks prior to the start of card delivery, the Agency will send communications in the FAA Daily Broadcast, to E2 travel POCs, and a message banner in E2 telling employees to look for a plain

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