{"id":581,"date":"2004-02-04T15:58:30","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T20:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/federal_workforce_turnover\/"},"modified":"2004-02-04T15:58:30","modified_gmt":"2004-02-04T20:58:30","slug":"federal_workforce_turnover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/federal_workforce_turnover\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Workforce Turnover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Outside the Beltway comes this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/004936.html\">Defense Department release<\/a>, which indicates significant changes are in store for the military workforce:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Up to 25,000 Defense Department civilians may be eligible for thousands of dollars in separation pay through an early-buyout program.<br \/>\nThe program is part of the 2004 National Defense Authorization Act.<br \/>\nOn Dec. 30, Ginger Groeber, deputy undersecretary of defense for civilian personnel policy, allocated 25,000 buyouts to defense components to pay eligible departing employees up to $25,000 if they choose to leave their jobs early.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nGroeber said the program&#8217;s primary beneficiaries are employees who work at facilities the Defense Department expects to close, or at locations where there is a change in the military mission. She said that while the buyout will help DoD to minimize its work force at commands and organizations that are downsizing or restructuring, it also may allow the department to offer a substantial sum of money to workers forced out of their jobs through the separation process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This reminds me: someone who works near Washington, D.C. recently told me that within three or four years there&#8217;s a huge number (25%?) of federal workers who will become eligible for retirement.  It may be that a lot of baby boomers are reaching that point.  At any rate, if we do see a high turnover in the near future it&#8217;s not going to do much to improve government efficiency, is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/federal_workforce_turnover\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Federal Workforce Turnover\"><p>Via Outside the Beltway comes this Defense Department release, which indicates significant changes are in store for the military workforce: Up to 25,000 Defense Department civilians may be eligible for thousands of dollars in separation pay through an early-buyout program. The program is part of the 2004 National Defense Authorization Act. On Dec. 30, Ginger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}