Few employees denied step increases for poor performance

Few employees denied step increases for poor performance - FederalTimes.com
"Does job performance play a factor in employee raises and step increases?
Unions defending the General Schedule say yes. But the latest numbers say clearly no.
Only 737 out of more than 1.2 million GS employees — or one in every 1,698 — were denied a regularly scheduled step increase and accompanying raise in 2009 because of poor performance, according to data provided by the Office of Personnel Management at Federal Times' request."