What does all the salaried employees at Livermore think about the new hour for hour sick and vacation leave reporting coming in July?
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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April 18, 2015 at 4:35 PM
How so? It seems that more accurate reporting is a good thing. Unless you think that charging 4 hours when you actually take 6 or 7 is honorable.
April 18, 2015 at 4:35 PM
I agree. Every single decision that LANS/LLNS has made or will ever make is always, always in their favor. Anything for a buck or a penny.
So much for long term employee retention except for the remaining TCP1 folks hanging on. LANSLLNS will become an early paragraph for "name drop" value (although dated) on resumes as folks seek out greener pastures. Very unfortunate.
LLNS TCP1 employee SL can be converted to "service credit" time at the point of retirement. LLNS employees with thousands of UC/LLNL accumulated and transferred SL hours into the TCP2 system, totally lose those SL hours at the point of retirement.
In recent years, some lab "good old boys" in the TCP2 system were allowed to systematically burn through accumulated SL by either taking it immediately in front of or immediately after VAC days, or systematically burned SL days (plural) every week just below the threshold of the medical justification confirmation requirement.
Yes things come up and Sick Leave gets used. I understand. The "so what" comes in when for some reason an employee is singled out for a sick leave interrogation session for small random SL usage, while days of systematic SL consumption for LLNS "good old boys" is blessed. That is the only "so what" as far as I'm concerned.
When select employees are put under the microscope and harassed for activity "A" you better make sure there isn't far worse and completely sanctioned "good old boy" Petri Dishes waiting to be examined that will bite you in the behind. Other than that, yes who cares except for LLNS bean counters.
This only concerns exempt employees.
Thanks for splashing a little sanity in the face of the rabid conspiracy theorists.
Do you deem it "rabid" because you got bit as defined above?
May 3, 2015 at 1:33 PM
This is only about sick leave, and only to comply with new CA law. It does not affect vacation or work time reporting. There's a reason exempt employees are "exempt" from reporting hours worked. It is because they are "exempt" from being paid overtime. Unless you want to repeal the Fair Labor Standards Act, which says that exempt employees are paid for the job they do, not the hours they keep.