Trump Plan Would Tie Federal Employee Layoffs to Performance

The Trump administration is proposing the biggest change to its employee retention rules in decades, attempting to substitute job performance for seniority in deciding who’s fired when an agency institutes layoffs. In a 102-page rulemaking proposal set to be published Thursday, the Office of Personnel Management said the new system would make reduction-in-force regulations “more…

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US Treasury dept cancels union contracts for IRS, Bureau of Fiscal Service staff — What changes? Are taxpayers affected?

In a move that could be viewed as a violation of a United States federal court order, the government’s Treasury Department on 27 February terminated its collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) with union-tied employees at the Internal Revenue Service, as per an AP report. Agreements with the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) at the IRS and…

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