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 The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills.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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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-opm-orders-all-dei-offices-begin-closing-end-day-wednesday
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/01/23/trumps-diversity-orders-rattle-ceos-what-companies-should-know-about-new-dei-rules/
to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language” do not and have not occurred?
“Boykin was listed as the chief diversity officer as recently as Tuesday – Trump’s second day in the Oval Office – and now shows her as working as the agency's "senior executive." “
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/atf-accused-circumventing-trump-order-place-dei-staff-paid-leave
In addition to obvious DEI job titles, it should be easy enough for DOE/NNSA to look for key DEI words in recent lab performance appraisals to see who was officially identified as having a DEI programmatically funded function in full or in part, over the last few years. There are also charge accounts associated with DEI tasks. If the lab DEI sanitized or scrubbed performance appraisals, that would fall under trying to obscure or rename. Will DEI managers and employees be placed into EIT status?
at all costs, including security clearance violations
that never reach the LSO or HQ for proper investigation, thinking this is best for their own career interest, well, maybe that was the wrong approach. Time for a security clearance review of all DEI enablers. Absolute protection of DEI hired lab employees should have consequences.