From Govly:
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is implementing significant changes to workforce scheduling and holiday staffing policies to address operational backlogs and staffing shortages. These changes include offering overtime work on federal holidays with telework options, testing office openings on holidays with holiday pay incentives, and reportedly eliminating credit hours in favor of fixed shifts. These adjustments reflect SSA's efforts to improve operational efficiency amid ongoing workforce challenges and reduced staffing levels.SSA's holiday overtime offerings and potential holiday office openings signal increased demand for flexible staffing solutions and may affect contract labor planning and telework arrangements. …
- The elimination of credit hours and move to fixed shifts at SSA could impact contractor workforce management, requiring adjustments to labor scheduling and compliance with new agency policies.
- Procurement professionals should monitor these evolving workforce policies as they may influence contract performance metrics, labor cost structures, and staffing requirements for SSA and related federal agencies.
- The CECOM pilot program suggests potential future shifts in federal workforce scheduling practices that contractors supporting DoD components should consider in operational planning. …
Let me break this down. If you reinstate maximum telework, all your production concerns are greatly alleviated if not solved. Look at OHO and its ALJs. If you add overtime, same thing. Now if you eliminate credit hours or flexibility, production will go down significantly. It’s not that hard.
ReplyDeleteThe telework mafia needs to understand that the schedules are set by management and workers have NO say on what schedules are implemented.
Delete@11:46: You need to understand that you apparently have NO understanding of how the Federal Labor Relations Act works!
Delete@11:46: You’re wrong for one, and whether they have a say in it isn’t even relevant to the point the commenter was making.
DeleteDo you believe that this administration adheres to the Federal Labor Relations Act?
DeleteYou must be joking!
I always work credit instead of overtime. Time is more important to me. If you eliminate credit, I’ll be doing my straight 40 and out – your loss.
ReplyDeleteUh … you are working 40 hours either way with credit. Just not necessarily in the same week or pay period. So not much of a threat. Now if you said you were going to resign If they get rid of credit, that would be different.
DeleteIt will be made up another way lol No more hoarding sick time then-
DeleteThe argument that it’s hour for hour (credit) makes sense. But I would venture a guess that the average FO technician can get much more work done in terms of production on a credit hour then during the core hours of the week on the 800 number or up front.
DeleteNo one should be working holidays or overtime unless and until their contractual telework rights are restored. The agency needs you. It’s not the other way around, no matter what they tell you.
ReplyDeleteTHIS Federal Agency despises, if not hates it’s employees. Remember folks we only hire the best aaaannmnddd. No COLA for you, you scum bag.
ReplyDeleteI do not understand any of this. There are federal agencies that absolutely love their employees and treat their employees with respect and dignity.
Maybe they earn it.
DeleteIs this reliable? It’s dated earlier this month and amalgamated info from a bunch of Reddit posts about rumors.
ReplyDeleteAlthough many rumors this past year ended up becoming true eventually…
We need new rumors and conspiracy theories because too many have proved to be true.
DeleteAll been done before (including Telework), If they don't know or care what works best then it's just performative changes. How about Congress simplifying the labyrinth entitlement laws we have to navigate which they created? Simpler, straightforward entitlement processes would go a long way to reducing backlogs, phone calls, and court cases. Congress 'owns' Social Security but getting them to do anything but pander to voters is almost a lost cause.
ReplyDeleteIn a letter to Frank Bisignano, the IRS chief executive officer and Senate-confirmed commissioner of SSA, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. led colleagues in denouncing this new policy as a “cruel and unjustified plan that is likely to drive additional employees out the door, doubling down on the administration’s already disastrous efforts to push out federal employees.”
ReplyDeleteSens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., also signed onto the letter, shared exclusively with Government Executive.
“We are concerned that this policy will further weaken the already stressed resources of these agencies, leaving the American people with degraded access to their rightful Social Security benefits and needed IRS services,” the senators wrote. They estimate that the suspension of advanced annual and sick leave will collectively impact more than 120,000 IRS and SSA employees.
Whats next I ask whats next?
ReplyDeleteI predicted credit hours being taken away earlier this year. When will mandatory OT be implemented?
Mandatory Pretzel training coming in 2027
DeleteNo statutory or regulatory limits apply to the amount of overtime work a manager may require an employee to perform. However, an employee may be excused from overtime work for reasons such as illness or the illness of a family member.
DeleteIf an employee refuses to perform overtime work, the agency may discipline the employee for failure to report for scheduled overtime duty.