Long response: I was a career federal government employee, now retired. There are, or were, standard operating procedures for reducing the workforce. Reductions in Force (RIF), targeted buyouts, hiring freezes. The key is that RIFs and buyouts followed rules. Newer hires were more vulnerable to RIFs as seniority would be onr factor considered, as well as performance re iees, ans whether an employee was also a military veteran.
Buyouts were usually offered to employees who were at or approaching retirement age. Offering those employees then gave agencies flexibility in hiring replacements. Those replacements would be hired at a lower salary and were also under a different retirement system.
In short, if a president wants to reduce the federal workforce in a thoughtful way, it can be done.
Trump enabled a man with ZERO knowledge or expertise in the government to just cut jobs with NO review or intelligence.
Jim Spenser, semiretired meteorologist for Austin's KXAN tv station, is on fire on his Facebook page about the flood and weather related issues. Check him out if you want an EXPERT opinion on these issues.
Long response: I was a career federal government employee, now retired. There are, or were, standard operating procedures for reducing the workforce. Reductions in Force (RIF), targeted buyouts, hiring freezes. The key is that RIFs and buyouts followed rules. Newer hires were more vulnerable to RIFs as seniority would be onr factor considered, as well as performance re iees, ans whether an employee was also a military veteran.
Buyouts were usually offered to employees who were at or approaching retirement age. Offering those employees then gave agencies flexibility in hiring replacements. Those replacements would be hired at a lower salary and were also under a different retirement system.
In short, if a president wants to reduce the federal workforce in a thoughtful way, it can be done.
Trump enabled a man with ZERO knowledge or expertise in the government to just cut jobs with NO review or intelligence.
Jim Spenser, semiretired meteorologist for Austin's KXAN tv station, is on fire on his Facebook page about the flood and weather related issues. Check him out if you want an EXPERT opinion on these issues.
I will check his FB page.
https://www.facebook.com/share/172Rpoa2zR/
https://www.facebook.com/share/172Rpoa2zR/.
Jim Spenser. Austin meteorologist. One of if the best in the business is doing a deep dive in the floods
I live about 100 miles away here in central Texas. I'm doing a deep dive into all things Trump 2.0 and regarding emergency management. Check my sub stack. This was a preventable disaster. https://open.substack.com/pub/sharonlawrence/p/climate-environment-and-emergency-b30?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=a5esd