Why can't we do that to our federal employees? Reclass and PCO them elsewhere?
Much of that requires legislation. Agencies are allocated so many GSs at each level of their organizational structure. You get around it by “double” and even “triple” slotting. That’s something that newly appointed Trump agency executives could put a stop to if it still goes on is. This is where you are allocated say one GS13 slot, but you tie two or three GS13s to that slot. You just can’t use payroll money to fund the extra personnel. Those amounts are legislated and part of the legal record. You have to use\convert operational funds for the additional personnel. The payroll amounts and funding numbers are legislated. The only good thing about it is if there is a RIF these extra personnel go first. Quite often the “wokeratti & ‘protected classes’ “ occupy the real (funded) slot. This makes HR happy because it protects those all-important diversity numbers.