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EPA To Lay Off 8% Of Its Employees In Next 2 Months
2017-07-18
[Daily Caller] The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will lay off more than 1,200 employees over the next two months by offering buyouts, documents obtained by E&E News indicate.

E&E News obtained an email from the National Treasury Employees Union to its members at EPA stating EPA plans to buy out 1,227 positions, 655 of which will be from agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. EPA employees could apply for buyouts starting last Thursday and must submit their decisions by July 26. The layoffs will occur over the next two months.

EPA will offer employees up to $25,000 in cash in exchange for them leaving. This is a standard practice for federal employees that allows them to retire early and still qualify for full benefits.

The largest number of buyouts, 183, will come from the Office of Research and Development. EPA will also offer buyouts to 98 employees at the Office of Administration and Resource Management, and make the same offer to 94 workers at the Office of Land and Emergency Management.

EPA will also offer buyouts to eligible employees at regional offices spread through the country. The email indicated EPA is expected to offer more buyouts after the initial 1,200.
Posted by:Besoeker

#13  Why Adak or Gary?

I hear there's plenty of room in the Marianas Trench.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2017-07-18 21:55  

#12  Dammit, freaking auto spell thingee on my new IPad.

So what do you have against Adak?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2017-07-18 19:15  

#11  And what do you have against Adam?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2017-07-18 19:14  

#10  Nowmove the headquarters somewhere nice, like Gary, Indiana.

Better yet, Adak Alaska.
Posted by: jvalentour   2017-07-18 17:40  

#9  ..and no AC from Memorial Day till the first full moon after Labor Day.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-07-18 10:59  

#8  (EPA) will lay off more than 1,200 employees over the next two months

Most likely they will become lobbyists, consultants and members of a "think tank."
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-07-18 10:58  

#7  Now move the headquarters somewhere nice, like Gary, Indiana.
Posted by: Raj   2017-07-18 10:31  

#6  Put a zero behind the 8 and we will have a good size of what it should actually be.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-07-18 09:00  

#5  Remember during the 'oughts' and the rotations to the ME, the Army finally got authorized up to 530,00 or so. Now its back down to 480,000. How about using that as a slide for cutting the other departments?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-07-18 08:53  

#4  Also in the article:

Paying EPA employees to leave their jobs isn’t anything new. Under former President Barack Obama, the EPA paid more than $11 million in incentives to compel 436 employees to voluntarily leave their jobs in 2014. This was done to reduce payroll expenses.

I question the motive in this case.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-07-18 08:40  

#3  Not just talk.
Posted by: Skidmark    2017-07-18 08:11  

#2  Also known as a decent start.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-07-18 07:35  

#1  Is this before or after the GIVERnment workers who threatened to quit if Trump was elected actually quit?
Posted by: Airandee    2017-07-18 06:18  

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