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Who are federal employees? Federal employees are individuals who work for the federal government. This includes politicians, judges, and heads of departments such as Labor and State. Federal employees can also be civilians who work government jobs in areas like law enforcement, public health, science and engineering.

Most senators' offices include a chief of staff to manage the office, legislative correspondents to communicate with constituents, and legislative directors and assistants to help develop legislation, as well as schedulers, communications and press staff, and other administrative assistants.

Their constitutional powers include; proposing legislation, drafting or amending bills, filibuster(delay or block legislation via prolonged debate), oversight of the federal budget, and the executive branch by approving or rejecting presidential appointees for agencies.

Along with earning salaries, senators receive retirement and health benefits that are identical to other federal employees, and are fully vested after five years of service. Senators are covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) or Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS).

Senators depend on the assistance of staff on Senate committees and in their individual offices, both in Washington, D.C., and in their home states. Senate committee staffs include clerks, staff directors, staff assistants, legal counsel, researchers, policy analysts, press assistants, and archivists.

Yes. Senate staff are considered Excepted Service Federal employees under the Legislative Branch of government. This means that they are excepted from Competitive Service in the Executive Branch, as administered by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

A legislative correspondent is a position in the congressional staff employed by members of the United States Congress that is chiefly responsible for drafting constituent form letters and memoranda, tracking legislation, conducting legislative research, and meeting constituent and interest groups.

While congressional staffers are federal employees, as a group they are quite different from their Executive Branch counterparts. ing to the Office of Personnel Management, the average federal employee is 47 years old.

With the broad range of job opportunities and competitive pay and benefits, government jobs are clearly some of the the most attractive career opportunities in Canada.The good news is that GovJobs.ca connects you to every source for jobs in the public service.

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