Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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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.