With all the recent news about federal civil servants and bureaucracies… here is a crash course (not all inclusive) in all that.
I will preface everything with: I have never worked in the swamp… I was never a bureaucrat…I always produced a tangible product to support the warfighter…
There are federal laws that govern everything as most probably know. There are as many laws to get rid of nonperformance employees as there are to keep and/or correct them. The big problem is lazy management not making the effort to get rid of bad employees. It’s too easy to let them linger.
I haven’t heard the term “RIF” on the news which is surprising. A reduction in force is basically abolishing job positions which gives the government several options to remove/move/retire employees. Sometimes a rif comes with a vsip (voluntary separation incentive pay) or a vera (voluntary early retirement authority). That usually attracts employees.
I’ve never heard of what’s being offered now. Delayed resignation. Basically resign now… draw pay until September then quit. Working another job is allowed. I’m very sure those that took this option can’t work for a government contractor during this time. But who knows what is allowed or not these days.
I’m thinking that merging and or disbanding whole agencies will have to be approved by congress. So far I don’t disagree with anything Ive read. I’m usually a little cautious of not throwing the baby out with the bath water though. Of course our government is so bloated and wasteful that it will probably take a top down restructuring to get somewhere close to manageable.
Back to a rif… there’s laws that let the government can do away with positions and the employees can either be picked up somewhere else or let go. That’s deep in the legal realm and im sure there’s more to it. The problem i have and have seen is lazy management has given marginal employees a passing performance evaluation for decades so it will be hard to get rid of them in a rif and they will be someone else’s problem eventually. I would assume that disbanding whole agencies and trimming down others would not leave other places for employees to get transferred to and would necessitate complete removal. Of course 7 months of full pay is a sweet deal for anyone.
My little corner of the world could use some doge… in the past 40 plus years, I can tell you it’s got extremely bloated/overpriced/ inefficient/etc etc. I could cut 20% in minutes if I was king for a day.
I will preface everything with: I have never worked in the swamp… I was never a bureaucrat…I always produced a tangible product to support the warfighter…
There are federal laws that govern everything as most probably know. There are as many laws to get rid of nonperformance employees as there are to keep and/or correct them. The big problem is lazy management not making the effort to get rid of bad employees. It’s too easy to let them linger.
I haven’t heard the term “RIF” on the news which is surprising. A reduction in force is basically abolishing job positions which gives the government several options to remove/move/retire employees. Sometimes a rif comes with a vsip (voluntary separation incentive pay) or a vera (voluntary early retirement authority). That usually attracts employees.
I’ve never heard of what’s being offered now. Delayed resignation. Basically resign now… draw pay until September then quit. Working another job is allowed. I’m very sure those that took this option can’t work for a government contractor during this time. But who knows what is allowed or not these days.
I’m thinking that merging and or disbanding whole agencies will have to be approved by congress. So far I don’t disagree with anything Ive read. I’m usually a little cautious of not throwing the baby out with the bath water though. Of course our government is so bloated and wasteful that it will probably take a top down restructuring to get somewhere close to manageable.
Back to a rif… there’s laws that let the government can do away with positions and the employees can either be picked up somewhere else or let go. That’s deep in the legal realm and im sure there’s more to it. The problem i have and have seen is lazy management has given marginal employees a passing performance evaluation for decades so it will be hard to get rid of them in a rif and they will be someone else’s problem eventually. I would assume that disbanding whole agencies and trimming down others would not leave other places for employees to get transferred to and would necessitate complete removal. Of course 7 months of full pay is a sweet deal for anyone.
My little corner of the world could use some doge… in the past 40 plus years, I can tell you it’s got extremely bloated/overpriced/ inefficient/etc etc. I could cut 20% in minutes if I was king for a day.
