Swamp Draining Bill Would Make It Easier to Cut Federal Employee Bloat
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Swamp Draining Bill Would Make It Easier to Cut Federal Employee Bloat
Last week, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved legislation that would double the probationary period for federal employees from one year to two.
The probationary period is the narrow, one-year period after new employees are hired. During this period, federal managers can fire employees without going through a lengthy bureaucratic process.
This period isn’t necessary in the private sector, where businesses are free to dismiss employees at any time if they are not adequately performing their jobs.
In the federal government, though, it’s almost impossible to fire an employee after the one-year probationary period because the process of doing so is incredibly burdensome.
On average, it takes a year and a half to fire a federal employee—and it would be even higher if federal employers actually tried to fire more of their underperforming employees. Having learned from experience, most federal managers only attempt to dismiss employees in cases of extreme misconduct or for particularly egregious offenses.
Not surprisingly, the layoff and discharge rate for federal employees is only one-third that of the private sector.
Doubling the probationary period from one year to two years for most newly hired federal employees—including senior executive service employees—will give federal managers more time to assess whether new employees can perform their jobs well enough to stay on the payroll.
Of course, not all dismissible offenses occur within the first two years of employment. But adding an additional year to the probationary period would mark a significant improvement over the status quo and would help weed out the least productive federal employees.
This is good news for taxpayers and federal employees alike.
For taxpayers, it will mean a more productive federal workforce that will translate into lower federal personnel costs. And for federal employees, it will help weed out the bad actors that have given federal employees as a whole a bad rap.
Increasing the probationary period for new federal hires is one step in the right direction toward a more competitive and productive federal workforce.
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Re: Swamp Draining Bill Would Make It Easier to Cut Federal Employee Bloat
The American People pay ungodly, wages and retirements, for Dead-wood government employees. If you do even a small amount of research , you will find that we have more government ,State and Federal employees than any nation the world! We are literally "Government Poor" and clogged up to the point we are regressing back to the "Dark Ages" of Serfdom.
The Democrats will never let this pass, a top heavy government, has always been the goal, they are not going to let it go at this point.
The Democrats will never let this pass, a top heavy government, has always been the goal, they are not going to let it go at this point.
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