The Federal Salary Council (FSC) is an advisory body of the executive branch of the United States government.
By law, the President of the United States appoints the members of FSC, including three experts in labor relations and pay policy and six representatives of trade unions and other employee organizations representing large numbers of federal civil service employees paid according to the General Schedule (GS) pay scale.
President Donald Trump appointed three expert members to the council: Dr. Ronald Sanders, chair, a human resources professional; Jill L. Nelson, vice-chair, chair of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee; and Katja Bullock, a special assistant to the president and associate director of the Presidential Personnel Office.
Current union members on the council are Louis P. Cannon, trustee, Fraternal Order of Police; J. David Cox, president, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE); Randy L. Erwin, president, National Federation of Federal Employees; Anthony M. Reardon, president, National Treasury Employees Union; and Jacqueline Simon, public policy director, AFGE.
Writing that he was a "lifelong Republican" who prided himself on having "served three Democratic and three Republican presidents,"[3] Sanders sent a letter to John D. McEntee, Presidential Personnel Office director, characterizing the order, which had purported to hold federal employees more accountable, as a transparent attempt to remove long-standing employment protections from federal workers.