LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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This bogus "right" to freeze our pay makes no sense. Perhaps it is time to go the legal route and have this pay freeze declared illegal. Dr. Chu should be ashamed of himself for making this ill advised decision.
H-17 CONTRACTOR EMPLOYEES
In carrying out the work under this Contract, the Contractor [LLNS, LLC] shall be responsible for the employment of all professional, technical, skilled, and unskilled personnel engaged by the Contractor in the work hereunder, and for the training of personnel. Persons employed by the Contractor shall be and remain employees of the Contractor and shall not be deemed employees of the NNSA or the Government"
This will come as a great surprise to you but......they're making it up as they go along....just like work control, safety rules....rules that contradict other rules!
You didn't really think there was any logical consistency to it did you?
This DOE pay freeze policy on contractors is a SCAM!
It's time to get the lawyers and teach DOE a lesson in the rule of law.
Fools......
But if DOE can illegally save a few bucks by claiming you work directly for them, they'll do it. Shameless crooks like to stick together.
We are not DOE employees, but they do have the power to effect the aggregate funds the laboratories can expend on salaries. No fun, but haven't heard of any forced furloughs either.
January 5, 2011 8:27 PM
Absolutely correct. All the whiners who claim "DOE can't do this" forget that DOE has to approve all salary increases, even though they come out of yearly lab operating funds, not any new allocation. DOE has simply said, in accordance with that process, that they won't approve any increases for two years. Totally legal and doesn't require us to be government employees, just notification of the decisions in advance. Suck it up.
They are just spent on something else.
Vindictiveness or incompetence, not savings.
Some Teapartyist who reads this will make my heart swell when 2% is removed from Lab funds.
This comment would then cost about 1/2 of what the useless LLNS fee costs each year.
WHat the .... are you talking about? what do you teapartyist have to do with the subject? I miss those days when this BLOG was moderated upstream.