There’s a report that the use of overtime for writing Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) decisions was ended yesterday. The agency is so short of staff that it has to use overtime to accomplish a significant part of its workload so this matters.
I’m not surprised at this development. With the ALJ backload dropping rapidly it was inevitable that the agency would transfer resources to its needier parts.
Yes, this is true. But the reason is that there is no need for OT for decision drafting. In most offices (if not all) decisions are being drafted 1-3 days after the ALJ drafts instructions.
ReplyDeleteThe OT is not being used for other workload, it is just not being used.