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Posted on 01/16/2019 7:34:04 AM PST by 11th_VA
... A new statement from the Office of Management and Budget provides cold comfort for federal bureaucrats worried that furloughs during the partial shutdown could become permanent layoffs, as long as Democrats refuse to give in and fund the border barrier.
There will be no immediate layoffs (what the federal government calls reductions-in-force – or RIFs) if and when the current partial shutdown passes the 30 day mark in 4 more days. As I explained yesterday in Trump's shutdown trap?, federal law requires RIFs when federal employees are furloughed more than 30 days...
This emphatically does not rule out the shutdown trap hypothesis that I presented. ...
As the anonymous Senior Trump Administration official that I quoted yesterday noted, in the absence of bureaucrats with time on their hands and no inclination to help the Trump agenda, a lot is getting accomplished. As that process continues, after the 30-day mark is reached it will be possible to create a downsizing plan, identifying units that could easily get by with a fraction of their current staff, or even be reorganized out of existence.
The head of the OMB, Mick Mulvaney, currently does not have a lot of spare time, serving as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and as interim White House Chief of Staff (a 24/7 job in its own right). But if he is on board (and why wouldn’t he be?), he could well designate a team to prepare quick plans for downsizing, now that the various agencies have seen how little they need so many of the furloughed bureaucrats. That would make the furloughs qualify for RIFs...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The govt has had many RIFs over the past 40 years. There is nothing remarkable about them.
The shutdown is triggering the RIF at 30 days.
Wrong. READ the memo! Reading comprehension, it works!
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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.
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Looks like a nice sampling of the 80% which does 5% of the work.
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.
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.
Check and mate
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.
Thank you, I will read this carefully.
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RIF now!!! This is a great opportunity to Make America Great Again.
RIF! RIF! RIF!
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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?
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.
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.
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