Rumor has it that 13 people in the CIO program will be escorted out on Friday.
Can someone confirm that? what kind of skills, age and functional areas?
Thanks!
Can someone confirm that? what kind of skills, age and functional areas?
Thanks!
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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It looks to me like the layoffs are due to funds mismanagement which is due to the wrong priorities.
A good example is Syncplicity, targeted for 1000s of people but has only something like 65 users.
Waste of money? you decide.
Directly terminated? No EIT status followed by EBA status for the career employees before termination?
SL means "Supplemental Labor" such as the Akima employees at LLNS.
Cricket. Cricket.
All LLNL employees released from the an LLNL program are returned to their home organizations to find other positions - not walked offsite (EIT/EBA status).
October 8, 2014 at 8:16 PM
In the recent RIFs from the LANL Security program, terminated employees were informed by the same people who then walked them off site, personal belongings from their offices to be collected and delivered by someone else at a later time. Hard to believe that LANS and LLNS have different policies in this regard.
"...SL's are supplemental labor employees
/ contractors. Contractors are released from LLNL if they lose funding - these are the terms of the employment contract..."
Against LLNS supplemental policy, SL are not always released as a buffer to funding fluctuations to preserve career positions. This was the case in NIF in the Fall of 2012. By policy, when there was a "fit", career employees were to be given the assignments formally held by supplemental labor. This did not happen, but there were some "good ol' boys" given assignments before the down turn that were "made to fit".
The take away? If career employees want to work at places like NIF with large budget fluctuations, understand workforce reduction does not follow established LLNS policy, it follows the buddy system. No one will be there to help you including the managers responsible to monitor and enforce LLNS employment policies. SHRM is passive and silent on these matters The LLNS Supplemental Labor and EIT/EBA policies are just in place for 20,000 ft. DOE/NNSA fly overs. Sorry.
"...All LLNL employees released from the an LLNL program are returned to their home organizations to find other positions - not walked offsite (EIT/EBA status)..."
Yes, but the clock is ticking to your individual RIF, and you must provide a weekly report to the very same organization that decided to release you in the first place. Many new assignments are not formally posted and have a limited paper trail, leaving room for any manager(s) to put the kibosh on your chances of acquiring a new assignment before the sand runs out in your employment hour glass.
By no accident, EIT and EBA policies are not uniform across LLNS directorates or divisions within directorates allowing for maximum management discretion and in some cases abuse. Don't look to SHRM for assistance.