OMB issues guidance on Reduction in Force layoffs due to partial shutdown

americanthinker ^ | Jan 16, 2019 | By Thomas Lifson

[Okeydoker]

The govt has had many RIFs over the past 40 years. There is nothing remarkable about them.

[marajade]

The shutdown is triggering the RIF at 30 days.

[Okeydoker]

Wrong. READ the memo! Reading comprehension, it works!

[servo1969]

Hello my baby, hello my honey
Hello my ragtime gal...

[GOPJ]

If this plan is followed and a downsizing proposal is officially revealed, Trump either gets an end to the shutdown, or he gets to downsize the federal bureaucracy

It's a 'win-win'...

[marajade]

I read the memo. It said they don’t plans at this time to start the RIF. But there is a guideline in place that when the gov’t is shutdown for 30 days a RIF may occur.

I’m sure Mick Mulvaney has everything ready to go and every contingency covered.

[bitt]

P

[Vigilanteman]

Looks like a nice sampling of the 80% which does 5% of the work.

[JimRed]

And bye bye accrued retirement benefits and health care.

The reason government benefits are so generous is that back in the day government workers' pay was on the low side; the benefits helped them to get good people who thought in the long term. But now their pay outstrips much of private employment, yet the bennies remain.

[oincobx]

The President just summoned back 10s of thousands of furloughed workers. That doesn’t seem like a step one would take before implementing a large RIF.

[Nifster]

Check and mate

[klsparrow]

I don’t remember government workers caring about all the people losing their jobs in the private sector. Government workers get all their missed pay made up and still have a job. People in the private sector got no pay and have no jobs. Yet the media and government workers want the private sector people who lost jobs to feel sorry for them. They did not give a crap when they were laid off. Here is an idea get out and get another job.

[little jeremiah]

Thank you, I will read this carefully.

[Java4Jay]

ping

[hal ogen]

RIF now!!! This is a great opportunity to Make America Great Again.

[RooRoobird20]

RIF! RIF! RIF!

Hah! Hah! Hah!

LOLOLOL!!!!

[marajade]

They have to work without pay. The IRS said they can process refunds with just half the staff. If that’s the case, why employ the other half?

[Agatsu77]

I am still afraid that the Senate rinos will start to cry and give up. I think Trump would still veto, but it would look extremely bad.

[rxsid]

"After 30 days, it is clear that most are not needed and definitely not missed. Lay them all off, eventually pay them (Congress already said they would) for up to the layoff. Then, let them collect unemploy ment benefits and go out and find new work just like everyone else."

Exactly.

I've watched many, many people get "RIF'd" in the private sector over the years.

It's not the end of the world if 800k fed gov employee's experience the same.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.