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| 'Hire the best and fire the worst': Trump proposes biggest civil service change in 40 years |
| 2018-02-11 |
| h/t Instapundit [USAToday] President Trump will seek to "hire the best and fire the worst" federal government employees under the most ambitious proposal to overhaul the civil service in 40 years, officials said. The measures will be outlined in the budget plan that Trump will send to Congress Monday, said four Office of Management and Budget officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the budget hasn't been released. ..."While to some people those are code words, they’re very clear to us," said American Federation of Government Employees President J. David Cox, who represents about 700,000 workers for the federal government and District of Columbia. "Basically it wipes out due process rights for employees." Another pillar of the proposal would reduce automatic pay increases and instead use that money for a performance bonus pool. Under the current system, federal employees get a review every one to three years. Employees whose performance is "fully successful" ‐ as 99.7% are ‐ get a within-grade "step" increase in addition to annual cost-of-living increases. Trump's plan would stretch out the amount of time it takes to go from step 1 to step 10 from 18 years to 27 years, saving $10 billion over the next decade, officials said. That money would then go to high-performing employees either as merit raises or one-time bonuses. Federal employee unions fear the pay-per-performance plan would be used to reward loyalists and discriminate against women and minorities. Like Lois Lerner, or Beverly L. Hall? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #11 Unions have no place in the federal government. Let them eat cake. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2018-02-11 16:07 |
| #10 When have employees in private industry had due process? Union members operate under different protections, JohnQC, and federal employees have been unionized for quite some time. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-11 15:52 |
| #9 Government union prez Cox says: "Basically it wipes out due process for employees." When have employees in private industry had due process? They can be layed-off or fired with or or without cause. It should be the same in government. Unions and Civil Service have become tools of the Deep State (Mostly Dems) to obtain a stranglehold on government. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-02-11 14:05 |
| #8 Huh, right-to-work laws. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-02-11 11:43 |
| #7 There are only so many "best", and everyone wants them (except the police, right Paps). Suggest instead that they focus on proper incentives (performance, not longevity), weeding out the non-performers and canning the unions. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2018-02-11 11:43 |
| #6 ..."While to some people those are code words, they’re very clear to us," 'Hire the best and fire the worst' doesn't sound like a dog whistle to me. "Basically it wipes out due process rights for employees." 'Do you know what a salary hit I'm gonna take?' |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-02-11 11:21 |
| #5 Trump could set an example by getting rid of Javanka and their coterie. |
| Posted by: charger 2018-02-11 10:13 |
| #4 Can't happen soon enough. BTW, USA Today is an anti-Trump propaganda outlet. |
| Posted by: A. Flavising9759 2018-02-11 09:08 |
| #3 The United States has laid off 360 local staff in Yemen three years after closing its embassy |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-02-11 07:10 |
| #2 Automatic pay raises & COL increases Not to mention 'performance bonuses/awards' which long ago simply became annual cash entitlements. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-02-11 06:57 |
| #1 Automatic pay raises & COL increases make no sense for public employees, particularly in an age where this very seldom happens to employees in the private sector. If they don't like the pay as currently offered, they are free to quit & seek employment elsewhere. Public unions should be outlawed. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-02-11 06:11 |