Posted on 12/04/2024 12:52:38 AM PST by blueplum
Thousands of federal and government workers landed members a work from home deal ahead of the incoming Trump administration's efforts to force workers to return to office...
The updated contract, which affects 42,000 government employees, will allow workers to stay hybrid until 2029.
The deal was signed by President Biden's former SSA Commissioner, Martin O’Malley....
(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...
There should be a mechanism stipulating the federal agencies representing over 1 million employees cannot commit to labor contracts during the Transition Period.
Biden is a disgusting low life as are all in the Democrat party. These workers aren’t doing any work and empty govt office buildings are are sitting all over DC while we pay to maintain them. This makes me sick.
Simple fix....hire audit teams on day one, and monitor the 42k on productivity. Send them ‘warning-letters’ weekly....release them after 90 days if they can’t fulfill obligated work/production.
If employees don’t need to be in an office to do their work, it is ridiculous small minded thinking to make them go into an office to do their work. It is not 1970, anybody working remotely on a common network can be monitored through Teams etc. it is a better deal for the taxpayer to have Federal employees telework and vacate some of the unneeded office space of which the FedGov owns or leases millions of square feet and pays to big money to furnish, heat, cool, maintain, secure, etc. many agencies have gone through reorganization and down spacing in the last several years where they don’t even have enough desk space for everyone if they actually did come back.
LAZY BASTARDS!
Send that info to the Trump team!
That should make it easier to move their offices to an area with NO Locality Pay. Instant 33.26% pay cut for those in the DC area who “telework”.
The incoming Trump administration has no constitutional obligation to honor such “contracts.” The current President is head of the executive branch of the federal government and has full authority over it.
This is about giving federal employees power over the current President. This is completely unconstitutional.
The federal bureaucracy cannot remain on “autopilot” beyond the reach of the elected President of the United States.
But they are not working. No one is monitoring them and the buildings sit empty still costing the US taxpayers a lot of money. And dont say they should sell the buildings. The commercial real estate market is in the toilet. They couldn’t give those buildings away. That’s why the private sector is demanding these slugs go back to the office or be fired. The govt needs to do the same. This is more welfare for the otherwise unemployable Federal workers.
At the very least. DC is expensive so if they are elsewhere, cut their pay.
Declare the contract null and void, decertify the union. and give the employees the Air Traffic Controller treatment from Ronald Reagan. The lawsuits would be cheaper than the wasted payroll on people who, if anything, are performing non-essential work.
It’s a tool for DOGE to justify terminating scads of them, thereby bringing efficiency.
“Declare the contract null and void”
For failure of consideration.
Fire them like Reagan did the Air Traffic Controllers...
“it is a better deal for the taxpayer to have Federal employees telework and vacate some of the unneeded office space of which the FedGov owns or leases millions of square feet and pays to big money to furnish, heat, cool, maintain, secure, etc.”
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Good idea, but upper management will fight to keep the prestige office space, and the union workers will continue to not show up. I know some of these folks, and since WFR (work from home) became policy their jobs have become more like part-time. They can knock out the important stuff in a few hours, and take the rest of the day off - just keep moving the mouse. Why should they come back when it’s almost impossible to fire them?
There’s not a performance gain from working from home, and there will be no big savings in dumping unused office space. Your government workers demand it.
That's why there is Locality Pay (33.26% for the DC area in 2024). If their offices are in a different locality with no Locality Pay, then THEY get NO Locality Pay even if they stay in the DC area "teleworking". That's the first easy and legal pay cut right there.
Time to pull a Ronald Reagan with the air traffic controllers.
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